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FIFTY  YEARS 
IN  BROOKLYN 

1853-1903 


od  history  of  a  period  should:  (1)  Marshal  essential  facts; 
1  .1  clew  which  orders  these  facts  into  a  unity; 
(;)  portray  the  dominant  personalities;  (4)  stir  one's  produc- 
tive imagination  so  he  will  be  able  and  compelled  t<>  complete 
the  picture;  (5)  enable  one  t"  realize  the  condition  of  the 
period. — Fiank  K.  Sanders,  Dean  Yale  Divinity  SJ100I 


BROOKLYN,  NEW  YORK 
\<  >VEMBER,  MCMIII 


BROOKLYN  FIFTY  YEARS  AGO 


T  a  dinner  held  in  the  Union  League  Club.  Brooklyn. 
November  23d,  1003.  a  number  of  gentlemen,  familiar 
with  the  Brooklyn  of  1853  to  1863,  were  requested  to 
indicate  in  a  sentence  or  two  their  most  vivid  impres- 
sions of  the  Brooklyn  of  that  period.  The  following 
is  the  record  of  their  observations: 


"  My  first  recollection  of  Plymouth  Chuich  is  1840-^0,  when  my  father  took  me,  a  boy  of 
fourtei  li  :i  tabernacle,  temporarily  occupied  .iiier  the  fire.     The  bare  wooden 

walls,  the  benches  for  pews,  the  great  congregation,  the  crowded  aisles,  the  strange  unconven- 
tional preacher,  the  like  of  whom  I  have  ni  heard,  left  an  indelible  impression  on  my 
memory,  which,  though  faded,  still  abides." — Lyman 

first  thoughts  of  Brooklyn  in  1851  centre  around  the  Church  ol  the  Pilgrims,  and 
the  Rev  R.  S.  Storrs,  Jr.  The  (Hunch  represented  all  that  is  best  in  New  England  thought  and 
life,  and  Mr.  Stons  himself  was  a  true  son  and  noble  representative  ol  the  best  type  of  the  New 
England  clergyman." — I).  W11  lis  I  mm  s 

"In  1853  there  were  but  four  banks  in  Brooklyn — the  Brooklyn  Bank  on  front  Street. 
I  ulton,  the  Long  Island  and  Atlantic  Banks  on  Fulton  Street,  opposite  Hicks,  and  the 
City  Bank  on  Atlantic  Street.     Nearly  all  the  business  stores  were  below   the  ("itv  Hall.'* — 
John  A.  Ni  xsi  n 

somewhat  imperfect,  recalls  an  unimproved  grove  stretching  from  (01  somewhat 
near)  Joralemon  to  Middagh  Street,  with  many  large  and  smaller  trees.     From  it  a  beautiful 

■t  the  harbor  and  environments  (which  should   have  been  retained  by  the  cit) — a  remnant 
is  now  seen),  in  front  White  and  Pierrepont  residences,      flu-  Cit)  Mall,  almost,  01 

quite  in  the  suburbs  ;  two  large  Name  colonial  residences,  with  improved  lawns,  trees,  sllrub- 
occupying  squares,  one  at  Fulton,  Tillary,  Washington  and  Johnson  Stieets  ;  the 
other  at  Fulton,  Smith,  Willoughby  and  Lawrence  Streets,  the  latter  called  the  '  Willoughby 
ion.'  two  old  Dutch  farm  houses,  with  gable  roots  and  bulb' eyes  in  the  front  doors, 
in  Fulton,  below  the  junction  of  Flatbusli  Avenue.  Two  country  roads  :  Flatbush  and  K 
Highway,  the  lattei  now  fifth  Avenue.       file  tenitoiy  bet  v.  .,  Prospect  P.nk 

and  Reservoir  Hill;  then,  wild  woods."— Leonard  B 

"  f  1  Hon  Street,  from  Smith  to  Hoyt,  now  so  brilliantly  illuminated  every  night,  and  where 

so  many  men  delight  to  linger  evenings,  was  not  frequented  much  in  those  days  alter  dark  ; 

it   wi  down   there       On   Sands   Street,    between    Washington   and    Fulton,    now 

oned  with  cai   tracks  above  ami  below,  a  congested  and  unsightly  thoroughfare,  there 

i  on  the  south  side  the  old  Sands  Stieet  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  the  cradle  of  Methodism 

in  Brooklyn  and    Long  Island,  and  on  the  opposite  side  the  old  St.   Ann's   Protestant  Episcopal 

Church,   with  its  beautiful   green   lawn,    and    the    Rectory,    where    lived   the  saintly  and   now 

I  Dr.  Cutler,"— A    B.  Thorn. 

nng  to  Brooklyn  in  1876,  I  was  surprised  to  notice  that  the  s\\  ine  were  allowed  to 
roam  at  large  in  the  streets  so  fai  down  towards  the  business  centres      The  condition  of  the 

ts  and  the  unwholesome  odors  in    Fulton   Street  gutters  impressed   me,  coming  from  New 
England.     Then  the  Long  Island  Railroad  had  an  old  shed  as  a  statiouat  South  Ferrj 
sent  out  its  trains  preceded  by  a  man  on  horseback  through  the  disused  but  still  existing  Atlantic 

i  tunnel."— I  h  \i  >    Win  1 1  . 


FIFTY  YEARS  IN  BROOKLYN 


"  In  the  early  fifties  there  stood  on  Willow  Street  a  small  schoolhouse,  the  only  building 
on  a  large,  vacant  plot,  extending  some  distance  along  Willow  to  Pierrepont,  and  from  Pierrepont 
to  Columbia  Street.  Here  cows  were  pastured.  On  the  other  side  of  Pierrepont  Street  was  a 
large  piece  of  woods.  At  the  foot  of  Pierrepont  Street  the  Heights  were  not  built  up  from 
Remsen  Street  to  Pineapple  Street.  About  this  time  the  City  Guard,  a  militia  company,  after- 
wards a  part  of  the  Thirteenth  Regiment,  Company  '  G,'  encamped  upon  the  Heights.  The 
white  tents  and  the  bright  uniforms  made  a  brilliant  display,  and  the  people  of  Brooklyn  visited 
tlie  spot  in  immense  numbers,  attracted  by  the  novel  sight."*— Thomas  H.   Messenger. 

"  I  remember  well  my  first  trip  across  the  East  River  on  the  ferryboat  '  Olive  Branch,' 
which  canied  only  foot  passengers.  That  was  the  favorite  boat  in  those  early  days.  My  home 
was  on  Fulton,  between  Tillary  and  Johnson  Streets,  a  large  colonial  house  with  grounds 
through  to  Washington  Street.  In  18s }  Fulton  Street,  where  the  Young  Men's  Christian 
Association  now  stands,  in  fact  from  Bridge  Street  upwards,  was  only  a  country  road.  At  the 
junction  of  Fulton  Street  with  Flatbush  Avenue,  was  the  old  'Jackson  Farm,'  where  we  boys 
had  our  ball  games.  As  I  pass  through  the  Brooklyn  of  to-day,  I  do  not  know  at  which  I 
marvel  most — the  wonderful  growth  of  the  city,  or  the  grand  success  of  the  Brooklyn  Young 
Men's  Christian  Association.  '  Not  unto  us,  O  Lord,  not  unto  us,  but  to  Thy  name  give 
glory.''' — Chaklks  W.  Bleecker. 

It  was  in  the  midst  of  conditions  like 
these  that  the  Brooklyn  Young  Men's 
Christian  Association  was  organized. 
Nine  years  previously,  on  June  6th,  1844, 
the  first  association  had  been  organized 
in  London,  through  the  efforts  of  George 
Williams,  then  a  junior  assistant  in  the 
dry  goods  establishment  of  Hitchcock  & 
Co.,  St.  Paul's  Churchyard.  Sir  George 
Williams  is  now  the  head  of  this  house, 
and  in  1894  was  knighted  for  his  service 
to  the  world  in  the  establishment  of  this 
organization.  Information  regarding  the 
London  Association  was  brought  to  the 
United  States  through  the  instrumentality 
of  George  M.  Vanderlip,  a  student  of  the 
University  of  New  York,  who  in  the 
Watchman  ,///</  Reflector,  of  Boston,  in 
June,  [850,  described  the  establishment  of  the  London  Young  Men's 
Christian  Association.  This  letter  led  to  the  organization  of  the  Boston 
Association  in  December  29th,  1851.  This  was  the  first  Association 
organized  in  the  United  States,  although  the  Association  in  Montreal 
was  organized  on  December  9th,  1851.  Brooklyn  citizens  have  a  special 
interest  in  this  historic  item,  inasmuch  as  Mr.  Vanderlip,  in  later  years, 
was  active  in  the  religious  life  of  the  city,  and  in  his  closing  years  made  his 

*  Brooklyn  ■<  ihla  tima  had  .1  population  "t  lets  than  150 


irge  Williams 


FIFTY  YEARS  IX  BROOKLYN  J 

home  here  until  August  ist,  1903,  when  he  died,  while  his  family  still 
retain  their  residence  here. 

From  the  very  small  beginnings  of  1844  in  London,  and  of  18^1  and  the 
succeeding  years  in  America,  the  little  handful  of  Associations  then 
existing  have  grown  into  a  marvelous  body  that  has  extended  its  influence 
around  the  world.  There  are  now  6.62=,  such  Associations,  with  a 
membership  of  644. 7 v^.  In  the  United  States  and 
Canada  alone  there  are  1,736  Associations  with  a 
membership  of  550,455.  These  latter  Associations 
own  buildings  and  real  estate  valued  at  $24,016,41 5, 
and  spent  last  year  for  current  support  $3,  =.83, 506. 
There  are  1,729  employes  who  devote  their  entire 
time  as  secretaries,  physical  directors,  or  in  other 
capacities  to  the  executive  charge  of  this  work. 
Departments  have  been  established  anion"  steam 
and  street  railroad  nun.  among  students,  ami 
the  men  of  the  Army  and  Navy,  among  colored  men 
and  Indians,  and  among  boj  rly  JO,  OOO  dif-  ngt m. vwderSp 

ferent  students  are  enrolled  in  the  evening  classes   of  these  Associations, 
and  over  40,000  in  their  Bible  Classes. 

It  is  from  the  standpoint  of  the  organization  of  to-day  that  the  follow- 
ing brief  historical  sketch  of  the  Brooklyn  Young  Men's  Christian  Associa- 
tion has  been  written.  These  Associations  came  to  a  consciousness 
of  their  legitimate  and  largest  work  through  a  process  both  interesting 
and  painful.  Now  that  their  legitimate  sphere  of  activity  seems  to  have 
been  crystallized,  it  is  possible  to  look  back  and  discover  the  mistakes 
of  the  past.  It  is  therefore,  not  in  disparagement  of  any  of  the  work 
of  the  past  that  this  historical  sketch  has  been  written:  but.  in  recognition 
of  the  well-defined  sphere  of  Association  activity  to-day,  the  evolution 
of  the  Association  from  1853,  amid  many  wanderings  and  back-slidings, 
tow. iiels  its  present  status,  has  been  outlined. 

It  will  be  noted  also  that  this  historical  sketch  revolves  to  a  considerable 
extent  around  the  buildings  which  at  different  times  the  Brooklyn  Associa- 
tion has  rented  or  purchased.  Indeed,  the  Brooklyn  Association  seems 
to  have  passed  through  the  three  periods  which  characterize  the  home- 
lite  of  men.  There  is  first  of  all  the  boarding-house  period  in  the  life  of 
the  young  man,  who  goes  from  the  country  to  the  city  to  make  his  way 
in  the  world,  which  typifies  the  lite  of  the  Association  in  the  meagre 
rented  rooms  which  it  occupied  in  the  early  part  of  its  career.      But,  as 


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FIFTY  YEARS  IN  BROOKLYN 


has  been  suggested  in  a  recent  editorial:    "Nobody  regards  a    flat  as 

his  perpetual  or  ultimate  residence.  He  stays  until  the  ceilings  begin  to 
come  down,  and  the  steam  pipes  leak,  and  then  moves  to  a  newer  place, 
or  the  landlord  raises  the  rent  and  virtually  evicts  him."  Soon  the 
family  passes  to  the  apartment  stage  of  its  life  where  it  at  least  has  a 
floor  to  itself.  In  the  same  manner  the  Brooklyn  Association  reached  a 
stage  of  its  activities,  when  two  or  three  rented  rooms  would  not  serve 
its  purpose,  and  it  passed  into  the  enjoyment  of  floors  of  buildings  rented 
for  the  purpose.  Once  more  the  family  move  from  the  apartment  into  a 
house  and  become  householders,  and  identify  themselves  more  promi- 
nently with  the  life  of  the  community  in  which  they  live.  Similarly  the 
Brooklyn  Association  passed  fiom  the  apartment  stage  of  its  existence 
into  the  householding  period  in  1885,  when  it  came  into  possession  of  a 
building  of  its  own.  which  has  been  since  multiplied  by  a  number  of 
buildings  in  various  parts  of  the  city. 


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I  Ik-  young  men  of  Brooklyn  connected  with  the  several  evangelical 
churches  of  this  City  are  requested  to  meet  on  Thursday  evening,  9th  ol 
June.  1853,  .1!  8:00  o'clock,  in  the  Second  Congregational  Chinch.  Bridge 
Street,  near  Myrtle  Avenue,  to  organize  a  Christian  Association  similar  to 
the  one  existing  in  the  City  of  New  York. 

Andrew  A.   Smith,  Robert  T.   Thorne, 

Robert  S.  Slocum,  I).  Willis  Jami 

John  E.   Hanford.  Charles  W.  Bleecker." 


IO  FIFTY  YFARS  IN   BROOKLYN 

In  pursuance  of  the  above  call  three  hundred  young  men  assembled 
and  proceeded  to  organize  The  Brooklyn  Young  Men's  Christian  Associa- 
tion. Charles  W.  Bleecker  was  appointed  chairman,  and  D.  Willis 
James  secretary,  of  this  meeting.  A  committee  of  five  on  Constitution 
was  appointed,  of  which  Mr.  James  was  the  chairman.  This  meeting 
was  followed  by  three  others  in  quick  succession  on  June  2^d,  28th  and 
30th  in  the  Lecture  Room  of  the  Church  of  the  Pilgrims,  over  which 
Andrew  A.  Smith  presided,  and  at  which  there  was  much  discussion 
concerning  the  incorporation  of  the  word  ,-  evangelical  "  in  the  preamble, 
which  read  as  follows:  "  We.  the  subscribers,  desirous  of  combining  the 
Christian  influence,  and  stimulating  the  piety  of  the  young  men  of  this 
City  and  vicinity,  and  of  promoting  the  growth  of  evangelical  religion  in 
our  midst,  do  hereby  form  ourselves  into  an  Association.'-  On  June 
30th  the  Constitution  was  adopted,  and  a  committee  of  twelve,  composed 
of  two  from  each  denomination,  appointed  to  nominate  officers.  On 
September  1st,  8th  and  15th,  meetings  were  held  again  in  the  Lecture 
Room  of  the  Church  of  the  Pilgrims.  At  the  tirst  of  these  the  Charter 
members  of  the  new  organization  were  enrolled:  at  the  second,  the  repre- 
sentatives of  the  various  denominations  prepared  a  list  of  names  to  be 
submitted  to  the  Nominating  Committee  for  officers:  and  at  the  third,  the 
Association  was  fully  organized  by  the  election  of  officers.  One  hundred 
and  eight  was  the  voting  strength  of  the  Association  at  this  last  meeting, 
a  number  which  was  increased  to  two  hundred  and  seven  within  a  short 
period.  The  first  Board  of  Managers  consisted  of  a  President,  six  Vice- 
Presidents,  a  Corresponding  Secretary.  Recording  Secretary.  Registrar. 
Treasurer,  and  thirty  other  gentlemen,  a  number  which  was  reduced 
early  in  i8=>6  to  twelve.  The  first  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Managers  was 
held  in  the  Committee  Room  of  the  Brooklyn  Athenaeum,  on  September 
19th,  and  a  second  on  September  27th.  at  which  by-laws  were  adopted 
and  the  following  Committees  designated:  Library.  Statistics.  Ways  and 
Means.  Lectures  and  Meetings.  Rooms  and  Receptions.  Printing.  Publish- 
ing and  Distribution.  The  first  public  meeting  of  the  Association  was 
held  in  the  then  new  Reformed  Church  on  the  Heights,  October  25th,  at 
which  a  representative  pastor  from  each  denomination  was  requested  to 


FIFTY  YEARS  IN  BROOKLYN  I  i 

Churches  in  which  the  first  meetings  of  the 
Association  were  held 


Church  of  the  Pilgrims 


First  Presbyterian  Church 


First  Reformed  <  lunch 


Reformed  Church  mi  Heights 


12  FIFTY  YEARS  IN  BROOKLYN 

;issist.  including  Rev.  R.  S.  Storrs,  Jr..  Congregational,  who  delivered 
the  address;  Rev.  Mr.  Fletcher.  Methodist  Episcopal;  Rev.  Mr.  Welch. 
Baptist:  Rev.  Dr.  Bethune.  Reformed  Dutch;  Rev.  Mr.  Canfield,  Epis- 
copal,  and  Rev.  Dr.  Spencer,  Presbyterian. 

The  Association  found  its  first  local  habitation  in  the  third  story  of  the 
Washington  Building,  corner  of  Court  and  Joralemon  Streets.  The 
original  room  which  was  divided  into  two  parts,  the  one  for  a  Reading 
Room  and  the  other  for  a  Conversation  Room,  covered  a  floor  space  of 
20  x  55  feet.  To  this  was  added  later  a  room  for  Board  and  Committee 
meetings  on  the  same  floor,  while  the  monthly  meetings  were  held  in 
the  Lecture  Room  of  the  Church  of  the  Pilgrims,  and  later  in  other 
neighboring  churches.  The  rooms  in  the  Washington  Building  wen 
opened  on  December  20th.  1853,  and  were  accessible  to  young  men  from 
four  to  ten  P.M.  daily,  except  Sunday,  until  November,  1855,  when  they 
were  opened  for  the  entire  day  and  evening. 

The  work  of  the  Association  as  planned  during  this  first  year  of  its 
existence,  and  as  conducted  throughout  the  period  now  under  discussion 
seems  to  have  been  five-fold :  (1)  The  library  and  leading  room.  The 
library  was  at  first  largely  made  up  of  books  presented  by  the  members 
or  friends  of  the  Association,  comprising  at  the  close  of  the  first  year  only 
three  hundred  and  twenty-seven  volumes,  a  number,  however,  that 
steadily  increased  to  fifteen  hundred  volumes  within  the  next  live  years, 
It  is  noteworthy  that  this  department  of  the  Association's  activities  gave 
the  name  to  the  first  executive  officer,  who  was  called  the  Librarian. 
(2)  Lectures.  A  course  ol  loin  lectures  on  "  Egypt  and  the  Holy  Land  " 
was  delivered  before  the  Association  during  the  months  o\  January  and 
February,  1854,  in  the  Brooklyn  Athenaeum  by  Rev.  |.  P.  Thompson  of 
New  York.  These  were  followed,  in  the  succeeding  winter,  by  two 
courses  ol  four  lectures  each,  the  one  by  representative  clergymen,  the 
other  by  ex-President  Hitchcock  of  Amherst  College,  on  'The  Religious 
Bearings  of  Geology."  and  these  in  the  following  winter  by  two  courses 
of  four  lectures  each,  the  first  by  Mr.  William  M.  Thackeray  on  the  "  I 
Georges  of  I  ngland,"  the  other  by  Rev.  W.  H.  Milburn,  the  blind 
pie. icher.   on    '•Western    life.'       During  subsequent    winters    there   ap- 


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14  FIFTY  YEARS  IN  BROOKLYN 

peared  on  the  lecture  platform  of  the  Association  such  men  as  George 
William  Curtis,  Dr.  Henry  M.  Scudder.  John  B.  Gough  (who  was 
repeatedly  re-engaged),  and  Rev.  John  S.  C.  Abbott.  Considerable 
difference  of  opinion  existed  among  the  membership  as  to  the  character 
of  the  lectures,  and  the  question  was  raised  whether  any  other  than 
lectures  of  a  strictly  religious  nature  should  be  given,  but  the  many-sided 
character  of  the  Association  as  it  now  exists  was  foreshadowed  in  the 
wise  decision  of  the  Managers,  that  not  only  the  spiritual,  but  equally  the 
social  and  intellectual,  wants  of  voung  men  should  be  provided  for. 
(3)  Monthly  Meetings.  These  were  representative  gatherings  of  the 
members  of  the  Association  and  their  friends,  and  were  largely  attended. 
The  programme  was  distinctly  literary,  an  essay  being  read  at  each 
meeting.  Among  the  early  essayists  were  the  three  brothers  of  the 
Abbott  family.  Benjamin  V..  Austin  and  Lyman  (the  last  named  speak- 
ing on  ••  Doctrine  and  Duty;  or,  the  Creed  not  the  Only  Test  of  Christian 
Character ").  (4)  Devotional  Meetings.  These  were  held  monthly. 
While  not  largely  attended  during  these  early  years  they  were  held  with 
regularity,  and  were  regarded  as  being  essential  in  reviving  the  spiritual 
ardor  of  the  members.  (=>)  Sunday  Evening  Sermons.  For  a  period  of 
six  years  a  series  of  Sunday  evening  sermons  for  young  men.  more  than 
one  of  which  found  its  way  into  print  by  order  of  the  Association,  were 
preached  during  the  winter  season  in  the  various  churches  of  the  city  by 
such  men  as  Rev.  Dr.  Bethune.  Rev.  Henry  Ward  Beecher,  Rev.  R.  S. 
Storrs,  Jr.,  Rev.  Theodore  L.  Cuyler,  Rev.  Dr.  S.  T.  Spear,  and  other 
giants  of  the  pulpit,  who  earned  for  Brooklyn  the  name  of  the  City  of 
Churches.  During  the  later  years  of  financial  stress  these  services  came 
to  be  associated  with  the  opportunity  for  securing  collections  for  the 
support  of  the  Association. 

It  is  noteworthy  that  these  five  departments  of  work  which  the 
Association  adopted  in  the  lirst  year  of  its  history  have  continued  with 
more  or  less  modification  among  the  main  lines  of  its  activity  up  to  the 
present  time.  While  lectures  have  come  to  be  interspersed  with  enter- 
tainments, and  monthly  meetings  have  been  superseded  to  .1  large  extent 
by  literary  societies  and  debating  clubs,  while  devotional  meetings  are 


FIFTY  YEARS  IX  BROOKLYN  I  C 

held  more  frequently,  and  services  in  the  churches  less  often,  in  the  main 
the  organizers  of  the  Association  in  its  very  first  year  laid  foundations  upon 
which  their  successors  have  been  building  to  the  present  time,  and  when 
in  1855,  they  organized  an  evening  class  in  the  French  language,  which 
continued  for  three  years,  and  monthly  socials  and  receptions  they  added 
the  beginnings  of  two  important  departments  —  the  Educational  and  the 
Social,  which,  with  occasional  lapses,  have  been  continued  ever  since. 
But  when  in  18=,  7  they  went  beyond  the  perfect  number  of  seven,  and 
commenced  to  organize  Sunday  schools  and  prayer-meetings  in  various 
public  institutions,  and  relic!  work  for  the  poor,  they  entered  a  sphere  of 
activity  upon  which  the  history  of  the  succeeding  years  did  not  set  its  seal 
of  approval,  and  which  ran  its  course  within  the  next  decade.  The  sub- 
ject of  conducting  Mission  Sunday  Schools  was  considered  as  early  as 
March  21st.  1854,  at  which  time  at  a  special  meeting  of  the  Association 
the  following  resolutions  were  unanimously  adopted: 

"  Reso/vc'if.  That  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association  pledges  its 
aid  to  the  cause  of  Mission  Sunday  Schools. 

•'  Resolved,  That  a  committee  of  twelve  be  constituted  to  give  direc- 
tion to  the  efforts  of  the  Association  in  this  behalf." 

It  was  not  until  September.  18^7.  however,  that  a  Sunday  School  was 

established  under  the  auspices  of  the  Association  at  the  Nursery  at  Flat- 
bush,  and  in  October.  i8=>8,  at  the  Truant  Home.  These  were  con- 
tinued with  much  zeal  lor  a  period  ol 'ten  years.  In  October,  1857,  the 
stringency  of  the  times  suggested  the  establishment  of  a  relief  work 
which  was  continued  for  two  winters,  and  later  at  long  intervals.  To 
these  were  added,  in  1858,  preaching  services  in  "The  Asylum  for  the 
Insane  at  Flatbush,"  which  was  the  forerunner  of  similar  services  and 
prayer-meetings  in  other  public  institutions  and  in  mission  chapels. 
This  work,  conducted  under  the  auspices  of  the  Committee  on  Statistics 
— a  name  that  was  afterwards  changed  to  Committee  on  Statistics  and 
Evangelization — was  entered  in  the  reports  of  the  Association  under  the 
caption  of  "Aggressive  Work.''  and  was  done  in  spite  of  the  recognition, 
in  the  published  annual  reports  of  the  early  Presidents,  of  the  existence  of 


l6  FIFTY  YEARS  IN  BROOKLYN 

the  Sunday  School  Union,  the  Association  for  Improving  the  Condition 
of  the  Poor,  and  other  organizations  established  for  the  conduct  of  these 
specific  kinds  of  work,  and  the  avowed  purpose  of  the  Association  to 
labor  for  the  welfare  of  the  young  men  of  the  community. 

Contrary  to  the  earlier  and  later  policy  of  the  Association  also,  ladies 
were  invited  in  i8=n  to  attend  the  monthly  meetings,  and  in  i8sq  to 
become  Association  members,  and  to  partake  as  such  of  all  the  privileges. 
the  argument  being  used  that  the  library  and  reading  room  would  be 
largely  patronized  by  them,  and  that  their  refining  influence  would  be 
felt  in  the  social  meetings.  This  privilege  continued  to  be  accorded  for 
a  period  of  more  than  twenty-five  years,  during  which  time  ladies  played 
a  more  or  less  important  part  in  the  work  of  the  Association,  at  one  time 
numbering  twelve  hundred  in  its  membership,  attracted  doubtless  by 
the  opportunity  to  make  use  of  the  library.  The  Brooklyn  Associa- 
tion was  among  the  last  in  the  American  group  to  withdraw  the  privi- 
lege of  membership  from  ladies;  and  only  did  so  as  the  experience  of 
the  Associations  at  large  demonstrated  the  advisability  of  work  by  young 
men  for  young  mvn. 

Very  early  in  the  history  of  the  Brooklyn  Association  the  fear  that  it 
might  be  a  rival  of  the  church  began  to  find  expression,  especially  after 
its  entrance  into  the  spheres  of  general  activity,  to  which  reference  has 
already  been  made.  The  Association,  therefore,  found  it  desirable  to 
emphasize  its  purpose  as  a  co-laborer  with  the  Church,  and  to  recite  the 
following  resolution  of  an  International  Convention  of  the  Young  Men's 
Christian  Associations: 

"  Resolved,  That  we  do  not  intend  that  these  institutions  shall  take 
the  highest  place  in  our  affections,  or  the  largest  share  of  our  labors,  but 
that  we  hold  these  organizations  as  auxiliary  to  the  divinely  appointed 
means  of  grace,  the  Church,  and  the  preaching  of  the  Gospel." 

As  already  intimated  no  question  in  connection  with  the  organization 
of  the  Association  was  more  earnestly  discussed  than  the  incorporation 
of  the  word  "evangelical"  into  its  constitution.  One  of  the  members, 
in  proposing  an  amendment  looking  to  the  substitution  of  the  word 


FIFTY  YEARS  IN  BROOKLYN 


First  Presidents  of  the  Association 


"Christian  "  for  the  word  "evangelical,''  announced  that  if  this  amend- 
ment were  defeated  he  would  offer  another  providing  that  the  name  of 
the  Association  should  be  "  The  Young  Men's  Evangelical  Christian 
Association.  The  government  of  the  Association,  however,  was  in  the 
end  entrusted  to  members  ol  evangelical  churches,  "not,"  as  the  tirst 
printed  report  of  the  Association  states,  "in  a  spirit  of  hostility,  but 
with  the  desire  to  avoid  useless  controversy,  and  to  secure  unity  of  pur- 
pose and  effort."     That  a  very  serious  effort  was  made  to  consider  the 


I  8  FIFTY  YEARS  IN  BROOKLYN 

interests  of  all  the  churches  represented  in  the  government  of  the  Asso- 
ciation is  evidenced  by  the  facts  that  all  the  denominations  were  repre- 
sented in  the  call  for  the  organization,  that  they  were  all  given  an  oppor- 
tunity in  the  meetings  for  organization  to  nominate  officers  and  managers 
from  their  respective  denominations,  and  that  the  public  services  rotated 
among  the  churches,  while  the  elimination  of  the  names  of  particular 
churches  and  denominations  from  the  call  for  the  organization  are  indica- 
tive of  the  Christian  unity  which  the  Association  sought  to  exemplify  in 
all  its  procedures.  This  spirit  of  unity  and  of  religious  enthusiasm  was 
very  much  quickened  by  the  revival  of  i8s8,  the  report  of  which  year 
records  gratitude  to  God  for  the  gracious  outpouring  of  the  Holy  Spirit 
during  the  previous  months,  and  the  changing  of  many  associate  members 
to  active  members. 

The  earliest  relations  of  the  Brooklyn  Association  with  organizations 
of  a  kindred  character  were  with  the  New  York  Young  Men's  Christian 
Association.  That  Association  had  been  organized  on  June  30th,  1852, 
and,  as  will  be  noted  by  the  Call,  the  New  York  Association  was  the 
type  according  to  which  the  young  men  interested  in  the  Brooklyn 
Association  proposed  to  organize.  The  by-laws  of  the  Board  of  Man- 
agers of  the  New  York  Association  were  temporarily  adopted  at  the  first 
meeting  of  the  Managers  of  the  Brooklyn  organization,  the  officers  of  the 
New  York  Association  were  invited  to  the  first  public  meeting  in  Brook- 
lyn —an  official  visit  which  was  reciprocated  later — and  similar  exchanges 
of  courtesy  followed  from  time  to  time.  In  harmony  with  the  New  York 
and  four  other  Associations,  the  Brooklyn  Association  refused  to  identify 
itself  with  the  Confederation  of  American  Associations,  organized  at  Buf- 
falo, in  June,  18^4.  The  President,  in  his  first  annual  report,  states  that: 
••  A  proposition  for  a  Convention  of  Delegates  from  all  kindred  Associa- 
tions in  the  United  States,  to  consider  upon  the  propriety  of  establishing 
an  Alliance  of  American  Young  Men's  Christian  Associations,  was  recently 
made  to  this  society,  and  was  respectfully  declined,  for  the  reason  that 
tin-  expediency  of  such  union  was  not  apparent  to  our  view:  and.  also, 
because  such  supposed  centralization  would  militate  with  the  necessaril) 
local  character  of  our  field  of  effort,  requiring,  especially  in  the  early 


FIFTY  YEARS  IN  BROOKLYN 

Presidents  of  the  Association,  18^3-^9 


19 


Andrew  A    Smith.   iS^--';i. 


|ames  M<  < i< 


Kt  II .  185; 


John  M   Doubleda) 


20  FIFTY  YEARS  IN   BROOKLYN 

history  of  the  movement,  our  undivided  attention."  Similar  action  was 
taken  by  the  New  York  Association  under  the  leadership  of  Dr.  Howard 
Crosby.  This  action  was  reconsidered,  however,  and  in  June,  i8=;6,  the 
Brooklyn  Association  united  with  the  Confederation,  and  thereafter  was 
regularly  represented  at  the  Conventions  of  the  American  Associations. 
The  effect  of  such  representation  is  clearly  manifest  in  its  subsequent 
work,  as  will  be  seen  later.  At  the  close  of  i8=<}  there  were  twenty-five 
Young  Men's  Christian  Associations  in  the  United  States  and  Canada,  a 
number  that  increased  within  the  period  that  we  are  now  studying  to 
two  hundred  and  forty. 

The  expenses  of  the  Association  during  the  year  i8=>;  and  iN^j.  were 
$2.  iot.  Thereafter,  the  amount  ranged  from  $2,739,  which  were  the 
expenses  of  the  following  year,  to  $1,285.  The  effect  of  the  business 
panic  of  [857  is  seen  in  the  decreased  expenses  and  donations  of  the  fol- 
lowing year.  The  membership,  beginning  with  two  hundred  and  seven, 
as  already  noted,  was  increased  to  seven  hundred  and  two  by  the  close 
of  the  second  year,  and  then,  by  a  natural  reaction,  fell  to  about  five 
hundred  at  which  point  it  was  maintained  during  almost  all  of  this  period. 

Andrew  A.  Smith,  the  chairman  of  the  meetings  for  organization,  was 
elected  the  first  president,  and  served  for  nearly  two  years.  A  man  of 
clear  judgment,  gentle  spirit  and  broad  ideas,  the  Association  owes  to 
him  a  very  large  portion  of  its  early  successes.  He  was  succeeded  by 
Messrs.  James  McGee,  George  A.  Bell,  and  John  M.  Doubleday,  each  of 
whom  tilled  the  office  for  a  year.  These  gentlemen  were  all  identified 
with  the  early  religious  and  civic  interests  of  Brooklyn,  and  brought  to 
the  Association  the  benefit  of  their  large  experience,  and  iheir  representa- 
tive standing  in  the  community.  While  in  the  early  history  of  the  As 
ciation  the  responsible  librarian  was  oftentimes  a  member  of  the  Board  of 
Managers,  from  November  1st,  1853,  there  was  an  executive  officer  o\ 
the  Association  designated  as  the  Librarian,  and  devoting  a  considerable 
proportion  or  all  of  his  time  to  the  Association.  The  tiist  of  these  was 
Mr.  lames  P.  Root.  who.  beginning  on  the  date  indicated  above,  served 
the  Association  in  the  evenings,  and  was  in  charge  01  tin-  looms.  Mr. 
Pliny  Kiske  Warner  was  the  first  to  devote  his  entire  time  to  the  work  ol 


FIFTY  YEARS  IN   BROOKLYN  2  1 

the  Association,  and  served  as  its  librarian  between  October.  1855,  and 
June,  i8s6.  At  the  beginning  of  his  engagement  the  Board  of  Managers 
added  a  boy  to  the  executive  force  at  a  salary  of  $50  per  annum.  That 
boy  was  Charles  E.  Teale,  who  worked  in  this  capacity  for  two  years. 
He  is  now  the  Commissioner  of  Charities  for  the  Borough  of  Brooklyn, 
and  for  sixteen  years  has  been  an  active  and  honored  member  of  the 
Association's  Board  of  Directors. 


Charles  E.  IV.ik-  Charles  E.  Teale 

ition'i   t  i  r  ^  t    Office   1  Association   Director 

iS;,:,  loo-, 

On  April  28,  1859,  the  .Association  took  formal  possession  of  its  new 
rooms  in  the  building  of  the  Brooklyn  Institute.  1N2  Washington  Street, 
near  Concord  Street.  Thirty  years  later,  when  lire  destroyed  that  build- 
ing, the  Brooklyn  Institute  became  in  turn  a  tenant  of  the  Young  Men's 
Christian  Association.  In  1863,  with  the  lease  of  the  rooms  in  the  Brook- 
lyn Institute  building,  the  privileges  of  the  Hall  were  secured  lor  six 
evenings  111  the  year. 

I  he  tiist  mutterings  of  the  impending  storm  ol  the  slavery  agitation 
and  the  Civil  War  were  heard  in  the  Association  as  early  as  18^4.  when  a 
member  introduced  into  the  monthly  meeting  .1  resolution  against  the 
Nebraska  Bill,  then  before  Congress,  protesting  against  any  abrogation  of 
the  Missouri  Compromise,  and  a  copy  of  the  resolution  was  ordered  sent 


2  2  FIFTY  YEARS  IN  BROOKLYN 

to  representatives  in  Congress.  The  Association  found  itself  compelled 
to  take  a  stand  against  the  letting  of  its  rooms  for  political  lectures  and 
the  delivery  of  addresses  having  a  political  tinge  during  the  succeeding 
years.  It  was  not  until  the  winter  of  1856  and  18S7,  however,  that  the 
full  force  of  this  storm  broke  upon  the  Association.  A  determined  effort 
was  made  by  a  number  of  members  to  secure  the  public  and  official 
committal  of  the  Association  against  the  institution  of  slavery.  Much 
acrimonious  debate  was  aroused  among  the  membership  by  the  discus- 
sion of  this  question  at  the  monthly  meetings.  Resolutions,  pro  and  con, 
on  various  phases  of  this  topic  were  carried  by  a  narrow  margin  of  a 
few  votes.  Meetings  were  prolonged  far  into  the  night  and  differences 
were  engendered,  which  threatened  the  very  existence  of  the  Association. 
The  President  states,  in  his  annual  report  of  the  time,  that  '•  it  is  to  be 
earnestly  hoped,  that  on  the  one  hand,  no  obstacle  will  be  interposed  to 
prevent  the  Association  from  taking  a  proper  position  in  regard  to  the 
great  moral  questions  of  the  day,  and  that  on  the  other,  no  single  topic 
will  be  allowed  so  to  engross  its  time  and  attention  as  to  interfere  with 
its  more  proper  and  direct  work."  The  revival  of  i8s8,  to  which  refer- 
ence has  already  been  made,  seems  to  have  had  a  softening  influence 
upon  the  minds  of  the  members,  and  as  it  was  found  that  the  considera- 
tion of  the  question  led  only  to  bitterness  and  dissension,  the  theme  was 
thereafter  dropped  from  the  program  of  the  meetings,  and  there  appeared 
as  the  motto  of  the  Association  on  the  title  page  of  its  annual  report  in 
the  spring  of  185N.  the  text  -"  Behold,  how  good  and  how  pleasant  it  is 
for  brethren  to  dwell  together  in  unity." 

With  the  beginning  of  the  Civil  War  in  1801.  there  was  offered  to  the 
Associations  of  the  country  an  opportunity  for  that  marvelous  adaptation  of 
themselves  to  special  needs  and  conditions  which  has  since  characterized 
them.  The  Brooklyn  Association  immediately  appointed  a  committee  to 
visit  the  neighboring  camps  and  gain  information  concerning  the  feasibilit) 
of  holding  religious  services,  this  committee  in  turn  engaging  a  gentleman 
to  visit  the  camps  in  their  behalf.  Delegates  were  appointed  to  attend  a 
convention  in  New  York,  which  had  its  inception  with  Association  men. 
and  which  eventuated  in  the  organization  of  the  United  States  Christian 


FIFTY  YEARS  IN  BROOKLYN* 


Commission,  on  the  Central  Committee  of  which,  composed  of  twelve 
members.  Brooklyn  was  represented  by  the  Rev.  James  Eells,  D.D.  An 
Armv  and  Navy  Committee  was  appointed  by  the  Association,  which 
during  a  period  of  two  years  succeeded  in  securing  and  distributing 
$28,000  for  religious  services  among  the  soldiers.  There  being  some 
delay  in  the  organization  of  the  Central  Commission,  an  arrangement 
was  made  with  Mr.  Vincent  Colyer  to  act  as  the  distributing  agent  of 
the  committee  in  the  camps  near  Washington,  where  he  had  formerly 
acted  for  the  New  York  Association,  but  on  the  organization  of  the 
Christian  Commission,  the  funds  in  the  hands  of  the  Armv  and  Navy 
Committee  were  paid  over  to  it.  By  action  of  the  Board  of  Managers. 
members  who  became  in  arrears  to  the  Associa- 
tion while  absent  in  the  defence  of  their  country 
were  retained  on  the  roll. 

The   period   of  the   Civil  War   was  extremely 
paralyzing  to  the  regular  activities  of  the  American 
,  Associations.    Of  the  two  hundred  and  forty  Asso- 

ciations existing  at  the  beginning  of  the  War.  only 
sixty  survived  it.  The  Brooklyn  Association, 
however,  did  not  suffer  to  the  extent  of  some  of 
the  other  Associations,  and  while  no  new  phases 
of  work  were  entered  upon  during  this  time,  with 
the  exception  of  that  already  referred  to.  called  out  by  the  War,  the  usual 
services  and  functions  of  the  Association  were  prosecuted  with  vigor. 
The  monthly  meetings  were  held  with  regularity,  lectures  were  delivered, 
among  others,  by  Messrs.  (lough,  Beecher,  Cuyler  and  Phillips,  while 
Sunday  Schools  and  special  preaching  services  were  maintained  without 
interruption.  The  number  of  volumes  in  the  library  also  was  doubled  in 
1862.  through  the  efforts  of  Mr.  John  M.  Doubleday,  who  led  in  the  secur- 
ing of  a  fund  ol  $5,000  for  the  purpose.  A  series  of  entertainments  was 
also  held  in  the  Academy  of  Music  under  the  chairmanship  of  Mr.  E.  1). 
Barker.  A  proposition  to  establish  a  News  Boys'  Home  resulted  in  a 
report  Ol  the  special  committee,  that  prominent  citizens  had  taken  the 
matter  in  hand,  and  that  this  field  na\\  not  be  entered  by  the  Association. 


Rev.  Theodore  L.  Cuyler,  D.D, 


FIFTY  YEARS  IN   BROOKLYN" 


Presidents  of  the  Association,  [859- '64 


Henry  II.  Lloyd,  M  I)  ,  i859-'6o 


Robert  Speir  Bussing,  i86o-'6i 


( ).  Vincenl  Coffin,  i862-'6i 


Charles  A.  Righter,  iSov'04 


26  FIFTY  YEARS  IX  BROOKLYN 

The  Presidents  of  the  Association  between  i8=>g  and  186s  were  :  Henry 
H.  Lloyd,  M.D..  and  Messrs.  Robert  Speir  Bussing.  James  M.  Ives.  O. 
Vincent  Coffin,  Charles  A.  Righter  and  William  Edsall,  each  of  these, 
with  the  exception  of  the  last,  serving  a  single  term  of  one  year.  It  was 
a  trying  period  for  the  Association,  full  of  difficulties,  which  were  nobly 
met  and  overcome  by  these  loyal  men,  as  the  issue  discloses  The  only 
surviving  member  of  this  group  is  the  Hon.  O.  Vincent  Coffin,  who  in 
later  vears  became  the  Governor  of  the  State  of  Connecticut.  During 
these  vears  a  lady,  Mrs.  Gardner,  had  charge  of  the  rooms  and  acted  as 
librarian. 


FIFTY   YEARS   IX   BROOKLYN  2~] 


Chapter 


Thf.  Period  of  Rented  Floors. 
1865- 1885. 

On  September  7,  180=,.  the  Association  threw  open  to  the  public  its 
rooms  in  the  building,  80  s2  Fulton  Avenue,  on  the  southeast  corner  of 
that  thoroughfare  and  Gallatin  Place.  Here  it  had  secured  a  lease  for  five 
years  of  two  stories,  each  with  a  floor  space  of  45  x  75  feet.  The  Asso- 
ciation had  now  broken  away  from  its  early  policy  of  having  a  room  of 
small  dimensions  simply  for  reading  and  library  purposes,  and  holding 
meetings  in  the  Lecture  Room  of  some  neighboring  church.  Thereafter. 
the  regular  meetings  and  ordinary  courses  ol  lectures  were  held  in  its 
own  rooms.  The  membership  immediately  increased  from  469  to  1,254, 
a  number  that  had  increased  by  1867  to  4,666.* 

The  expenses  were  augmented  Ol  course  in  an  approximate  ratio. 
increasing  from  $2,000  the  last  full  year  in  the  Institute  building,  to  nearly 
$12,000  the  first  year  in  the  new  building,  and  ranged  from  the  latter 
amount  to  $20,000  during  the  Association's  tenantcy  of  this  building. 
The  current  expenses  in  1867  were  said  to  have  been  larger  than  those  of 
any  other  American  Association.  The  liberality  of  the  citizens,  however, 
was  correspondingly  increased,  and  the  Association  made  a  public  report 
in  the  year  1865  tor  the  first  time  of  contributions  to  its  work,  amounting 
to  $4,400,  Mr.  S.  B.  Chittenden  heading  the  list  with  a  subscription  of 
$$00.  <  >n  May  8,  1869,  the  Association  was  incorporated  under  an  act 
entitled.  "An  Act  to  incorporate  the  Brooklyn  Young  Men's  Christian 
Association.''  Under  this  Act  of  Incorporation,  the  name  of  the  Board 
of  Managers  was  changed  to  the  Board  of  Directors. 

The  period  upon  which  the  Association  now  entered  is  perhaps  the 
mi 'st  interesting  and  remarkable  in  its  history.      It  had  passed  the  days  of 

*  It  should  In-  borne  in  mind  that  this  was  not  a  paid  up  membership,  the  receipts  Mom 
annual  dues  at  this  time  were  f>4, 170,  while  from  a  similar  number  of  members  within  recent 
years  s-,-,,070  were  received  in  annual  dues.      01'  this  membership  twelve  hundred  were  ladies. 


28  FIFTY  YEARS  IN  BROOKLYN 

helpless  infancy,  had  survived  the  shocks  of  opposition  and  difficulty  to 
which  it  had  been  subjected,  and  entered  upon  the  period  of  its  youth, 
with  the  confidence  and  enthusiasm  engendered  by  the  view  of  a  great 
opportunity,  and  yet  not  always  with  the  wisdom  which  came  to  it  with 
increasing  experience.  The  years  between  186=,  and  1872  saw  more 
beginnings  of  permanent  phases  of  Association  activity  made  than  any 
other  equal  number  of  years  in  the  half  century  of  its  life.  During  this 
time,  the  Reception  Committee  was  organized,  the  Employment  and 
Boarding  House  work  inaugurated  as  bureaus,  the  Literary  Society  estab- 
lished, calisthenics,  the  forerunner  of  the  gymnasium,  introduced,  the 
first  Branch  organization  effected,  the  first  General  Secretary  employed 
under  another  designation,  the  real  beginning  of  the  educational  work, 
comprising  a  variety  of  evening  classes,  made,  and  the  first  genuine  Bible 
class  in  the  rooms  of  the  Association  commenced.  It  is  noteworthy  that 
these  last  two  Association  agencies  originated  together  in  the  life  of  the 
Brooklyn  Association:  the  Bible  class,  as  has  so  often  happened  in  the 
Young  Men's  Christian  Association,  following  in  the  wake  of  the  educa- 
tional classes.  This  great  record  was  probably  due,  among  others, 
especially  to  two  causes.  First  among  these  was  the  succession  of 
efficient  Presidents,  which  the  Association  had  during  this  time.  Mr. 
William  Edsall  was  the  first  gentleman  since  the  first  President  of  the 
Association,  Mr.  Andrew  A.  Smith,  to  serve  more  than  one  year  as 
President.  Mr.  Edsall  was  twice  elected  President,  and  after  an  inter- 
vening presidency  was  again  elected  for  another  year,  thus  serving  three 
years  as  President,  while  his  term  of  service  as  a  Director  covered  a  period 
of  twenty-lour  years.  A  man  of  clear  ideas,  as  his  reports  indicate,  con- 
cerning the  purpose  and  scope  of  the  Association,  and  with  strength  to 
carry  out  these  ideas,  the  Association  during  his  administration  received 
a  most  remarkable  stimulus.  He  was  followed  in  the  first  term  o\~  his 
presidency  and  preceded  in  his  second  term  by  Mr.  Ezra  D.  Barker,  who. 
with  Mr.  ().  Vincent  Coffin  and  David  H.  Cochran,  are  the  only  survivors 
of  the  seventeen  presidents  who  served  the  Association  prior  to  n 
Early  in  his  administration  Mr.  Barker  inaugurated  and  energetically 
pushed  .1  plan  ol  visitation,  by  which  to  each  ol  a  considerable  number  of 


FIFTY  YEARS  IN  BROOKLYN  29 

Presidents  of  the  Association,  1864-74 


William  W.  Wickes 

lS,,S--<><> 


Joseph  T.  Duryea,  D.D 

i-'-d 


Darwin  C 

|S-o-'72 


David  II.  Cochran 

iS72-'74 


3<D  FIFTY  YEARS  IN  BROOKLYN 

members  w;is  assigned  a  small  district,  in  which  he  was  asked  to  make 
the  acquaintance  or  obtain  some  knowledge  of  young  men,  to  influence 
as  many  as  possible  to  join  the  Association,  and  to  introduce  those  who 
were  in  need  of  it  to  friends.  These  gentlemen  were  succeeded  in  the 
presidency  by  Mr.  William  W.  Wickes,  Rev.  Joseph  T.  Duryea,  D.D., 
and  Professors  Darwin  G.  Eaton  and  David  H.  Cochran.  All  three  of 
these  gentlemen  were  men  of  large  culture.  The  two  latter  were  leading 
educators,  which  may  account  tor  the  kind  of  work  that  was  attempted 
by  the  Association  at  this  time.  Since  1867  the  Association  had  had  a 
Committee  on  Arts.  Sciences  and  Education,  but  it  was  not  until  the 
presidency  of  these  men  that  a  distinctly  Iiterarv  and  scientific  phase  of 
work  was  established  in  the  Association.  In  1870  a  course  of  weekly 
scientific  lectures  was  established,  which  was  continued  for  a  period  of 
several  years.  The  evening  classes  were  increased  at  this  time  also,  from 
two  to  five,  and  from  that  to  thirteen  in  187=,.  The  number  of  volumes 
in  the  library  was  increased  also,  from  five  thousand  in  1870  to  seven 
thousand  in  1874. 

Another  cause  that  doubtless  conduced  to  the  development  of  the 
Association  particularly  along  the  lines  of  work  for  young  men.  were  the 
International  Conventions  that  were  held  in  Boston  in  1X04.  and  in 
Albany  in  1866,  at  which  addresses  by  Rev.  H.  C.  Potter  of  Troy,  later 
the  Bishop  of  New  York,  and  Hon.  Cephas  Brainerd  of  New  York  City, 
emphasizing  the  tact  that  it  was  the  duty  of  the  Young  Men's  Christian 
Association  to  cultivate  their  specific  field  of  work  foi  young  men.  had 
made  a  profound  impression.  These  Conventions  were  attended  by  a 
number  of  representative  delegates  from  the  Brooklyn  Association. 
Hence,  we  find  along  with  the  weekly  Bible  class,  the  Saturday  evening 
prayer-meeting  and  the  Sunday  afternoon  meeting  of  this  period,  the 
work  of  such  committees  as  those  on  Employment,  Educational  Work 
and  the  Library.  We  are  not  to  understand,  however,  that  the  Associa- 
tion had  entirely  discarded  the  more  general  religious  work  which  it 
took  up  in  1857.  The  city  missionaries  were  united  to  make  then 
headquarters  at  the  building  o\  the  Association  :  a  committee  was 
appointed  u>  communicate  with  Rev,    Mr.    Heydrick,  city  missionary, 


FIFTY  YEARS  IX  BROOKLYN"  3  I 

(now  the  senior  missionary  of  the  Brooklyn  City  ;md  Mission  Tract 
Society),  to  secure  his  services  for  the  Association;  Children's  meetings 
were  conducted  in  Fort  Greene  Park:  the  Committee  on  Statistics,  by 
authority  of  the  Board,  opened  a  bureau  of  pulpit  supply,  and  many  of  the 
missionary  agencies  which  had  formed  part  of  the  activities  of  the 
Association  in  the  past  were  continued. 

The  President's  report  for  the  year  ending  May  14,  1867,  made  this 
announcement:  "The  frequency  and  importance  of  our  meetings,  the 
number  of  visitors  daily  calling  and  requiring  attention  at  our  rooms,  the 
correspondence  and  the  multiplying  details  that  needed  constant  care  and 
supervision,  and  more  than  all,  the  proposed  missionary  work,  seemed 
sufficient  reasons  for  the  employment  of  a  competent  and  experienced 
person,  who  could  devote  his  time  to  the  affairs  of  the  Association." 
Accordingly,  the  Board  of  Managers  engaged  a  Chaplain  and  Actuary, 
whose  labors  began  on  the  ist  of  January.  The  executive  officer  so 
appointed  was  the  Rev.  C.  H.  A.  Bulkley,  who,  under  another  name, 
was  the  forerunner  of  the  General  Secretaries  who  have  since  served  the 
Association.  In  December  of  the  same  year  he  was  succeeded  as 
Chaplain  and  Actuary  by  Rev.  R.  H.  Rust,  who  was  in  turn  succeeded 
during  the  early  part  of  1808  by  Rev.  William  M.  Martin  as  Superintend- 
ent and  Chaplain.  Mr.  Martin  labored  with  the  Association  for  seven 
years.  He  was  a  man  of  forceful  personality,  and  under  his  administra- 
tion the  Association  was  strongly  developed  on  the  lines  of  its  religious 
work.  His  conception  of  his  office  is  indicated  in  his  own  report:  "For 
the  good  of  the  Association  I  take  the  liberty  of  suggesting,  that  in  my 
judgment,  the  services  of  the  Chaplain  and  Superintendent  may  be  best 
employed  in  acting  as  a  connecting  link  between  it  and  the  churches. 
thus  securing  their  co-operation,  and  in  representing  the  building  project 
as  well  as  looking  after  the  spiritual  interests  of  the  Association,  which 
will  occupy  his  time  fully,  rather  than  in  being  confined  to  the  desk  by 
minoi  details  which  can  be  attended  to  by  others  whose  time  is  not  so 
valuable.''  Later.  Mr.  Martin  served  also  in  the  capacity  of  Treasurer, 
and  much  ot  his  time  was  devoted  to  securing  pecuniary  support  tor 
the  Association. 


32  FIFTY  YEARS  IN  BROOKLYN 

The  Association  occupied  the  two  floors  on  the  southeast  corner  of 
Fulton  Avenue  and  Gallatin  Place  for  seven  years.  During  nearly  all  of 
this  time  the  question  of  having  an  adequate  building  of  its  own  was 
agitated.  Indeed,  it  is  safe  to  say  that  up  to  the  time  of  its  moving  into 
its  own  building  at  502  Fulton  Street  in  1 88s,  the  Association  did  not 
spend  more  than  two  years  in  any  building  occupied  by  it,  before  making 
an  effort  to  find  more  adequate  and  suitable  quarters.  During  all  these 
years  there  was  a  righteous  discontent  with  any  accommodations  that 
the  Association  was  able  to  rent.  This  was  probably  fostered  by  the 
erection  of  the  first  fully  equipped  Association  building,  corner  Twenty- 
third  Street  and  Fourth  Avenue,  by  the  New  York  Association,  in  1869. 
The  very  active  campaign  for  a  building  of  its  own  which  the  Associa- 
tion commenced  in  1870,  while  not  successful  in  accomplishing  the  exact 
result  sought  for  (only  $80,000  towards  the  82^0,000  required  being  sub- 
scribed) was,  nevertheless,  fruitful  in  bringing  about  the  erection  of  a 
building  especially  adapted  to  its  needs  on  the  southwest  corner  of  Fulton 
Avenue  and  Gallatin  Place,  directly  opposite  the  rooms  occupied  by  the 
Association  up  to  this  time.  By  an  arrangement  with  Mr.  John  French 
the  Association  was  able  to  rent  for  five  years,  at  84,500  per  annum,  all 
the  stories  above  the  ground  floor  of  two  four-story  buildings,  and  the 
second  and  third  floors  of  the  adjoining  building.  These  rooms  were 
opened  in  September,  1872.  Here  the  Association  had  not  only  more 
commodious  quarters  than  in  the  premises  previously  occupied  by  it.  but 
also  the  exclusive  use  of  a  hall.  It  was.  therefore,  probably  as  well 
housed  as  it  could  have  been  in  any  rented  quarters. 

Succeeding  Dr.  Cochran  in  the  Presidency  came  Messrs.  Tasker  H. 
Marvin,  John  P.  Adams  and  Charles  H.  Dillingham,  all  of  whom  have 
now  gone  to  their  reward.  The  developments  in  the  secretaryship  of 
this  period  in  the  Association  are  of  the  most  interesting  character.  Rev. 
William  M.  Martin  resigned  as  Chaplain  and  Superintendent  in  1 N 7 ^ . 
During  this  year  Messrs.  Moody  and  San  key  conducted  meetings  in  the 
Brooklyn  Rink,  which  marked  the  beginning  of  then  greal  work  in 
America,  and  which  also  had  a  notable  influence  upon  the  work  of  the 
Association.     Mr.   Moody  nominated  lor  the  vacancy   in   the  executive 


FIFTY  YEARS  IN"  BROOKLYN 

Presidents  of  the  Association,  1874-M 


33 


Andrew  1  .  Taylor,  1880 


R.  kilton  Cutting 


34  FIFTY  YEARvS  IN  BROOKLYN 

office.  Rev.  George  A.  Hall,  the  General  Secretary  of  the  Young  Men's 
Christian  Association  at  Washington.  D.  C.  Mr.  Hall  was  engaged,  his 
services  to  date  from  December  ist,  1 87s.  When  the  Committee  who 
had  been  appointed  to  secure  a  missionary  for  the  Association  came  to 
confer  with  him.  however,  about  the  title  and  functions  of  his  office, 
the  differences  between  the  conceptions  of  the  executive  office  as  held 
by  the  Association  on  the  one  hand  and  by  Mr.  Hall  on  the  other,  were 
found  to  be  so  different  as  to  prevent  a  continuation  of  the  engage- 
ment. Mr.  Hall  soon  after  entered  upon  the  duties  of  the  State  Secretary- 
ship of  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Associations  of  New  York,  with 
which  work  he  has  been  usefully  and  honorably  identified  ever  since. 
It  is  noteworthy  that  the  Brooklyn  Association  came  slowly  to  the 
consciousness  of  the  Geneial  Secretaryship  as  it  existed  in  the  minds  of 
the  early  Association  leaders.  It  was  in  1871,  that  the  title  of  General 
Secretaryship  had  been  given  to  the  office,  with  the  realization  that  in 
order  to  his  greatest  efficiency  the  incumbent  must  have  a  recognized 
standing  as  the  executive  officer  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  be  permitted 
to  attend  its  meetings  and  have  a  voice  in  its  proceedings,  be  provided 
with  sufficient  assistance  to  relieve  him  from  unnecessary  details,  and 
enjoy  the  confidence  and  support  of  the  members  of  the  Board  in  the 
discharge  of  his  duties.  It  was  not  until  1876,  however,  that  the 
Executive  Officer  of  the  Brooklyn  Association  was  titled  as  Secretary, 
and  it  was  not  until  some  time  later  that  the  General  Secretary  came  to 
have  that  standing  with  the  Board  of  Directors,  which  incumbents  of 
that  office  now  enjoy.  The  explicit  terms  of  the  arrangement  with  Mr. 
Wilkie  in  the  invitation  to  him  to  become  Geneial  Secretary  in  1880 
indicate,  that  the  Association  had  by  that  time  come  to  a  full  recognition 
of  the  scope  and  purpose  of  the  office.  Mr.  Abram  S.  Emmons,  since  a 
successful  pastor  iii  various  sections  of  New  York  State,  served  the 
Association  in  an  executive  capacity,  and  finally  as  its  secretary  between 
September  1st.  1874.  and  May  1st.  1N77.  He  was  succeeded  by  Mr. 
Humphrey  B.  Chamberlin.  who  came  to  the  Association  in  October. 
1S77.  Mr.  Chamberlin  had  had  an  experience  as  General  Secretary  for 
several  years,  and  was  ably  assisted  during  the  second   year  i^\   his  term 


FIFTY  YEARS  IN  BROOKLYN  35 

Secretaries  of  the  Association,  iSby-'yu 


r- 


C.  H.  A.  Bulkley 

Chaplain   and   Actuary 
1867 


William  M.  Mai  tin 
Chaplain  .nut  Superintendent 

i868-'7«. 


\   S   Emmons 

>S7I-'T7 


II. ill 
i875-'76 


II.  B.  Chamberlin 

-'7" 


|.  T.  Bowne 
J-*79 


36  FIFTY  YEARS  IN  BROOKLYN' 

of  office  by  Mr.  J.  T.  Bowne,  for  many  years  since  the  Director  of  the 
Secretarial  Department  of  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association  Train- 
ing School  at  Springfield,  Massachusetts.  They  were  succeeded  by  Mr. 
Charles  H.  Dillingham,  who  had  also  filled  the  office  of  the  Presidency. 
The  trend  of  the  Association's  work  during  the  secretaryship  of  these 
men  was  distinctly  evangelistic.  If  the  comparison  will  not  be  mis- 
understood, one  might  be  made  between  the  missionary  work  of  the 
previous  years,  which  consisted  of  the  maintenance  of  Sunday  schools, 
children's  meetings,  preaching  services  for  men  and  women  on  the  one 
hand,  and  the  evangelistic  spirit  of  the  later  years  on  the  other,  which 
looked  to  the  winning  of  young  men,  particularly  by  the  presentation  of 
the  Gospel  and  by  personal  work,  to  Jesus  Christ.  No  invidious  com- 
parisons are  intended  between  the  missionary  work  that  preceded  1875 
and  the  evangelistic  work  that  followed.  It  was  simply  an  evolution  in 
the  life  of  the  Association,  each  representing  a  type  of  Christian  activity. 
The  tone  of  this  period  then  was  distinctly  evangelistic.  In  1875,  as  has 
already  been  stated,  Messrs.  Moody  and  Sankey  conducted  great  meet- 
ings in  the  Brooklyn  Rink,  having  come  to  Brooklyn  on  the  invitation 
and  at  the  initiative  of  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association.  A  Gospel 
Tent  was  secured  by  the  Association,  and  located  on  Union  Street,  near 
Ninth  Avenue,  in  close  proximity  to  the  main  entrance  to  Prospect  Park. 
This  tent  had  a  seating  capacity  of  eight  hundred,  and  in  it  were  held  a 
number  of  services  on  Sunday  and  during  the  week  until  1879,  when  a 
Gospel  Pavilion,  a  more  permanent  octagonal  structure  capable  of  seating 
about  six  hundred,  was  located  on  Flatbush  Avenue,  also  near  the  main 
entrance  to  Prospect  Park.  The  services  in  the  Tent  were  supplemented 
by  open  air  meetings  at  Atlantic  Dock  on  Coney  Island,  and  in  co-opera- 
tion with  the  Women's  Christian  Temperance  Union  at  Mozart  Garden. 
It  will  be  noted  that  the  chief  developments  of  this  period  date  from  the 
visit  of  Messrs.  Moodv  and  Sankey.  These  men  had  made  a  Listing 
impress  upon  the  life  of  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association,  as  the 
Young  Mtii's  Christian  Association  had  previously  made  a  lasting  impi 
upon  them.  At  the  close  of  the  meetings  in  the  Rink.  Mr.  Moody, 
having  learned  of  the  crippled  condition  of  the  Association,  called  for  .1 


FIFTY  YEARS  IN  BROOKLYN 


Dwight  L  Moody 


Ira  D.  Sankey 


Association  Gospel  lent 

Avenue 

l87S 


38  FIFTY  YEARS  IN  BROOKLYN 

thank  offering  from  those  who  had  been  helped  by  these  services.  This 
appeal  resulted  in  securing  the  sum  of  $9,258.  38.  from  13,743  contribu- 
tors. Several  gave  articles  of  jewelry  which  were  sold  at  good  prices. 
It  was  believed  that  this  assistance  saved  the  life  of  the  Association  at  this 
time.  When  the  corner  stone  of  the  Association's  building  at  =,02  Fulton 
Street  was  laid  in  1884,  Mr.  Moody  delivered  the  principal  address  of  the 
occasion,  while  he  and  Mr.  Sankey  conducted  the  first  services  for  men 
that  were  held  in  the  new  Association  Hall  in  1885.  The  Association 
owes  a  debt  of  gratitude  to  these  men.  echoing  the  sentiment  over  the 
grave  of  the  one  in  Northfield:  "  He  that  doeth  the  will  of  God  abideth 
forever,"  and  cherishing  the  deepest  sympathy  for  the  other  in  his  retire- 
ment in  his  Brooklyn  home.  The  work  of  the  Association  was  not  ex- 
clusively evangelistic,  however,  during  this  period.  Indeed,  so  varied 
were  the  privileges  offered  to  members,  and  the  activities  put  forth  with 
the  Association's  entrance  into  its  larger  quarters  that  the  charge  of  secu- 
larization, which  has  been  so  often  made  against  the  Association,  when 
its  activities  were  the  most  varied,  was  made  against  the  Brooklyn 
Association  at  this  time.  It  may  have  been  this  fact  that  led  the  Board 
of  Directors  to  instruct  the  secretary  to  present  a  synopsis  of  all  the 
work  of  the  Association  in  writing  for  publication  in  the  Association 
Advocate.  The  evening  classes  were  maintained  with  vigor,  the  enroll- 
ment being  as  high  as  seven  hundred  and  fifty  during  the  occupancy  of 
this  building,  calisthenics  were  introduced,  receptions  to  young  men  of 
different  trades  and  lines  of  business  were  offered,  the  library  interests 
promoted  by  a  Polhemus  Memorial  Fund,  from  which  two  thousand 
volumes  were  purchase,  the  Employment  Bureau  given  a  new  life,  and 
in  general  an  effort  made  to  cover  the  demands  o\  the  whole  man  by  the 
range  of  Association  privileges. 

One  of  those  recurring  crises  in  the  business  world  came  during  the 
year  1*7  ^  and  made  the  task  of  securing  donations  for  the  maintenance 
of  the  Association  extremely  difficult.  Mr.  Chamberlin  on  coming  to 
iklyn  entered  heartily  into  .1  work  of  his  own  conception,  namely, 
the  securing  of  six  hundred  sustaining  members  who  would  contribute 
at  least  ten  dollars  annually  until  they  gave  notice  of  the  revocation  of 


FIFTY  YEARS  IX  BROOKLYN  39 

the  agreement.  This  number  was  secured,  marking  perhaps,  the  most 
noteworthy  financial  accomplishment  of  the  Association  up  to  this  time. 
The  annual  expenses  of  the  decade  between  1 87s  and  188s  averaged 
$10,000.  while  the  membership  ranged  from  fifteen  hundred  to  twenty- 
tour  hundred. 

The  years  between  1880  and  1885  were  most  fruitful  for  the  future  of 
the  Brooklyn  Association.  During  this  time  Messrs.  Daniel  W. 
Mc Williams,  Andrew  L.  Taylor.  R.  Fulton  Cutting  and  Edwin  Packard 
filled  the  office  of  the  Presidency.  Mr.  McWilliams  had  twice  previously 
declined  to  accept  this  office,  and  was  compelled  to  lay  down  his  duties 
by  reason  of  illness  before  the  completion  of  his  year  of  service.  The 
oldest  member  of  the  Board  in  years  of  service,  an  intimate  friend  of  Mr. 
Moody,  and  carrying  over  whatever  was  best  in  the  evangelistic  life  of 
the  Association  into  its  work  under  new  conditions,  a  residuary  legatee 
ot  Frederick  Marquand,  and  so  enabled  materially  to  assist  the  Associa- 
tion in  its  efforts  to  obtain  its  first  adequate  building,  and  in  more  recent 
years  the  Secretary-Treasurer  of  the  Board  ol  Trustees,  he  is  justly  honored 
in  all  of  its  councils.  Mr.  K.  Fulton  Cutting,  who  had  a  most  successful 
administration  between  1880  and  1883,  and  has  since  fought  the  battle  of 
civic  righteousness  in  New  York  City,  was  succeeded  by  Mr.  Edwin 
Packard,  who  was  President  for  seven  years,  the  longest  term  of  office 
among  the  Presidents  up  to  this  time.  Mr.  Packard  has  for  nearly 
twenty-five  years  been  continuously  a  Director  of  the  Association,  during 
which  time  he  has  been  a  leader  in  several  successful  efforts  of  the  Asso- 
ciation to  raise  large  sums  of  money  lor  general  and  particular  purposes. 
while  during  his  administration  as  President,  the  Association  passed  into 
the  possession  of  its  first  building.  During  the  presidencies  of  these 
gentlemen,  Mr.  Thomas  J.  Wilkie  was  the  General  Secretary.  He  came 
to  the  Association  in  May,  1880,  from  the  General  Secretaryship  of  the 
Association  at  Toronto,  at  a  time  when  the  work  ot  the  Association  had 
been  severely  crippled  by  the  simultaneous  illness  through  the  severity  of 
their  labors  of  the  President,  the  General  Secretary  and  the  Assistant 
Secretary.  A  renewed  activity  characterized  the  operations  of  the  Asso- 
ciation from  the  beginning  ot  his  engagement.     The  gymnasium  was  at 


40  FIFTY  YEARS  IX  BROOKLYN 

once  ;ind  for  the  first  time  introduced  into  the  Brooklyn  Association  as  a 
part  of  its  work,  taking  the  place  of  the  Hall,  and  a  gymnasium  instruc- 
tor, Prof.  J.  Douglas  Andrews,  secured  to  take  charge.  This  was  not  the 
first  attempt  that  had  been  made  to  introduce  the  gymnasium  as  a  depart- 
ment of  the  Association.  As  early  as  June  }d.  i8=>6,  at  a  meeting  of  the 
Managers,  a  special  committee  of  three  was  appointed  to  take  into  con- 
sideration the  propriety  of  establishing  a  gymnasium  in  connection  with 
the  Association.  This  was  followed  by  earnest  statements  in  the  Presi- 
dents' reports  of  1856  and  1 8=,7.  concerning  the  value  that  a  gymnasium 
and  bowling  alleys  would  have  in  promoting  physical  manhood,  and  in 
attracting  voung  men  to  the  Association.  Dr.  Luther  Gulick,  director 
of  the  physical  training  in  the  schools  of  New  York  City,  says  that  no- 
where in  the  Association  literature  is  there  any  such  broad  minded  and 
wise  discussion  of  the  plan  and  necessity  for  physical  training  for  the 
city  boy  as  that  which  is  contained  in  the  report  of  i8=,(>.  In  i8sq,  on 
the  initiative  of  Mr.  Lyman  Abbott,  a  very  determined  effort  was  made 
to  secure  a  well  equipped  gymnasium,  and  it  was  proposed  to  secure  the 
necessary  amount  of  money  by  selling  shares  in  the  sum  of  ten  dollars 
each.  This  enterprise  might  have  been  carried  through  at  this  time  but 
for  the  intervention  of  the  War,  but  it  was  not  until  this  much  later 
period  that  the  gymnasium  was  introduced. 

No  period  of  the  Association's  history  has  been  characterized  by 
greater  activity  in  its  religious  work  than  this  one.  While  some  of  the 
remnants  of  missionary  work  had  been  carried  over,  and  there  were  tract 
distribution  at  Fort  Hamilton,  services  designated  as  Mission  Services 
here,  and  at  Fort  Schuyler  and  at  the  Marine  Barracks,  and  the  distribu- 
tion of  religious  literature  in  the  Municipal  and  other  public  buildings, 
evangelistic  zeal  for  young  men  was  never  more  manifest  in  the  Associa- 
tion than  at  this  time.  Special  series  of  evangelistic  services  for  men 
were  frequently  held;  Gospel  services  on  Sunday  afternoons  during  the 
winter  at  the  100ms.  and  during  the  summer  at  the  pavilion  were  largely 
attended  and  spiritually  fruitful  :  an  important  Bible  class  under  the 
leadership  of  Rev.  Dr.  Samson  was  introduced:  the  Yokefellows,  a  band 
of  men  organized  and  inspired  to  follow  up  evangelistic  meetings  with 


FIFTY  YEARS  IN"  BROOKLYN 

Secretaries  of  the  Association,  i88o-'86 


4' 


Thomas  J.  Wilkie 


Wallace  MacMullen 
i88?-*8s 


Francis  K.  Waidle 
1885 


personal  effort,  was  continued,  and  in  general  the  Association  stimulated 
to  the  largest  measure  of  activity  upon  religious  lines. 

The  most  visible  achievement,  however,  ol  this  period  was  the  inter- 
esting of  Mr.  Frederick  Marquand  in  the  Association  to  such  an  extent. 
that  in  1881,  he  made  an  otter  of  $20,000  towards  a  building  for  the 
Association,  an  offer  that  was  increased  later  to  $25,000,  and  from  that 
to  $50,000,  and  from  that  in  1882  to  $100,000,  on  condition  that  $200,000 
additional  should  be  secured.  Any  efforts  that  were  put  forth  for  the 
raising  of  the  additional  amount,  however,  were  brought  to  a  standstill 
by  the  death  of  Mr.  Marquand  a  lew  months  later.     In  the  early  part  of 

)  the  residuary  legatees  of  Mr.  Marquand's  estate  made  the  following 
offer: 


Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  March  21,   1881. 

To  mi.  Brooklyn  Young  Men's  Christian    Association: 

We,  the  undersigned,  hereby  offei  and  agree  to  erect  upon  the  six  lots  of  land  on  Bond 

and  Fulton  Streets,  Brooklyn,  now  owned  by  us,  and  valued  at  about  fifty  thousand  dollars,  :i 

building  suitable  i"i  Ihe  growing  work  and  objects  of  the  Brooklyn  Young  Men's  Christian 

iation,  ;it  .1  cost  not  to  exceed  one  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars,  and  to  convey  said 


42  FIFTY  YEARS  IN  BROOKLYN 

lots  and  buildings  of  the  value,  say,  of  two  hundred  thousand  dollars,  as  a  free  gift  to  the 
Association,  to  have  and  to  hold  so  long  as  the  same,  and  the  rents  thereof,  shall  be  used  by 
it  to  improve  the  spiritual,  intellectual,  physical  and  social  condition  of  its  members,  and  those 
whom  it  may  admit  to  the  privilege  of  said  Association,  by  means  appropriate  and  unison  witli 
the  spirit  of  the  gospel,  provided  : 

First. — That  the  Association  raise  before  January  i,  1885,  the  further  sum  of  one  hundred 
and  fifty  thousand  dollars  in  cash,  or  secure  good  and  valid  subscriptions  for  that  amount,  and 
place  the  same  in  trust  with  the  Trustees  of  the  Brooklyn  Young  Men's  Christian  Association, 
to  be  by  them  securely  invested  and  held  as  a  permanent  fund,  and  the  income  derived  there- 
from and  from  the  said  real  estate,  or  such  part  thereof  as  shall  be  rented,  to  be  paid  over  to 
the  Treasurer  of  the  Association  to  be  applied  by  the  Board  of  Directors  to  the  proper  uses  of 
said  corporation  as  herein  expressed  ;  and,  provided, 

Second. — That  the  charter  of  said  Association  be  amended  as  proposed  in  the  draft  of 
proposed  amendments,  being  deemed  by  us  desirable  to  inspire  confidence  in  the  friends  of  the 
Association.  That  the  said  real  estate  and  the  funds  of  the  Association  shall  never  be  used  for 
purposes  other  than  those  heretofore  specified,  and  to  insure  us  that  special  prominence  shall 
hereafter  be  given  by  the  Association  to  the  improvement  of  the  spiritual  condition  of  its 
members,  and  those  admitted  to  its  privileges,  and  that  its  other  woik  shall  be  made  subsidiary 
to  the  gieat  object  of  leading  them  to  believe  in  and  adorn  the  Gospel  of  Jesus  Christ. 

The  lots  have  been,  and  the  proposed  building  is  to  be  paid  foi  out  of  the  moneys  received 
by  us  under  and  in  pursuance  of  the  ninth  sub-division  of  the  last  will  and  testament  of  Frederick 
Marquand,  deceased,  and  upon  his  recommendation  and  request,  that  the  same  be  used  and 
distributed  ''in  the  cause  of  education  and  the  spread  of  the  Gospel  of  Jesus  Christ,  and  in 
encouraging  and  aiding  any  good  work,  either  in  our  own  or  in  foreign  lands." 

Respectfully  yours, 

Alanson  Trask, 

By  Daniel  W.  McWilliams,  Attorney. 
Daniel  W.   McWilliams, 
Virginia   M.   Monroe. 

As  the  plans  progressed  it  was  decided  to  enlarge  them,  and  to  make 
more  generous  and  permanent  provision  lor  the  varied  departments  of 
Association  work.  To  acquire  entrance  on  Fulton  Street,  the  property 
No.  S02  was  purchased  by  the  legatees,  the  building  thereon  was 
removed  and  the  lot  was  covered  by  the  new  Association  building.  Mr. 
Trask  purchased  three  lots  on  Hanover  Place,  removed  the  houses  and 
erected  the  Gymnasium  as  his  additional  and  special  gilt  to  the  Associa- 
tion. 

All  of  these  legatees  were  deeplv  interested  in  the  welfare  of  the 
Young  Men's  Christian  Association.  Mr.  McWilliams.  as  already  indi- 
cated, had  been  President  of  the  Association.  Mr.  Trask  was  a  directOl 
from  1869,  and  in  later  years  President  of  the  Hoard  of  Trustees.  He  has 
left  to  the  voung  men  of  Brooklyn  a  rich  legacy,  not  only  in  the  institu- 


FIFTY  YEARS  IX  BROOKLYN" 


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44  FIFTY  YEARS  IN  BROOKLYN 

tions  which  he  has  fostered  for  their  benefit,  but  in  the  example  which 
he  gave  as  a  young  man  in  fighting  his  way  by  the  force  of  character 
through  many  discouragements  to  the  front  in  business  life,  and  in  the 
use  which  he  made  of  his  wealth,  not  for  self  aggrandisement,  nor  for  the 
creation  of  a  large  fortune,  but  for  the  benefit  of  his  fellowmen.  Mrs. 
Virginia  Marquand  Monroe  was  the  niece  of  Frederick  Marquand,  had 
married  Mr.  Elbert  B.  Monroe,  who  had  been  a  member  of  the  New 
York  Young  Men's  Christian  Association  from  its  organization  in  18S2, 
and  successively  its  Treasurer,  Vice-President  and  President,  a  member 
of  the  International  Committee,  and  later  its  Chairman.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Monroe  were  in  deepest  sympathy  in  the  gift,  not  only  of  the  Brooklyn 
building,  but  of  buildings  of  a  similar  character  in  other  cities. 

The  offer  of  the  legatees  of  the  Frederick  Marquand  estate  involved, 
as  will  be  noted,  the  raising  of  Siso.ooo  as  an  Endowment  Fund,  by 
January  ist,  1 88s.  This  was  regarded  as  an  herculean  task.  No  such 
amount  of  money  had  up  to  this  time  been  raised  in  Brooklyn  in  one 
effort  for  any  of  its  institutions.  The  Board  ot  Directors,  however, 
entered  upon  the  work  with  courage  and  enthusiasm,  and  in  co-operation 
with  the  Special  Committee,  consisting  of  Mr.  A.  Augustus  Low  as 
Chairman,  and  Messrs.  Edwin  Packard.  George  Foster  Peabody.  Albro 
J.  Newton.  Daniel  W.  McWilliams.  David  A.  Boody.  Henry  Dalley.  Jr.. 
and  Alanson  Trask.  succeeded  in  completing  the  fund  before  the  close  of  the 
year  1884.  There  were  eight  hundred  and  fifty  subscribers  to  the  fund, 
the  amount  of  the  subscriptions  ranging  from  ten  cents  to  fifteen  thousand 
dollars.  In  the  meantime  the  work  of  erecting  the  new  building  at  502 
Fulton  Street  was  progressed.  Ground  was  broken  with  a  simple  cere- 
mony, including  an  address  by  Mr.  John  C.  Pearce,  who  had  been 
identified  with  the  fust  Young  Men's  Christian  Association  in  London  on 
its  organization,  and  had  been  an  active  member  of  the  Brooklyn  A 
ciation  for  a  number  of  years,  on  Mav  2d.  1SS4.  The  corner  stone  was 
laid  on  October  1  ith  following,  with  services  appropriate  to  the  occasion, 
the  President,  Mr.  Packard,  presiding,  Mr.  McWilliams  in  the  name  of 
the  legatees  of  the  Marquand  estate  presenting  the  building.  Mr.  Alanson 
Trask  laving  the  corner  stone.  Mayor  Low  and  Mr.  Moody  delivering  the 


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46  FIFTY  YEARS  IX  BROOKLYN" 

addresses.  These  services  were  followed  by  exercises  in  the  Academy  of 
Music  on  the  following  evening,  at  which  addresses  were  delivered  by 
Mr.  Moody  and  Mayor  Low.  The  building  was  completed  within 
sixteen  months  of  the  breaking  of  the  ground.  It  was  pronounced  at 
the  time  to  be  the  best  Young  Men's  Christian  Association  building  in 
the  country,  and  is  believed  to  have  cost,  with  the  lots,  about  $300,000. 
With  a  section  on  Fulton  Street,  20x67  teet-  ;,n^  lour  stories  high,  the 
rear  connecting  with  the  main  portion  of  the  building,  having  a  frontage 
on  the  west  of  123  feet  on  Bond  Street,  and  running  back  100  feet  in 
depth,  and  on  the  east  a  frontage  of  60  feet  on  Hanover  Place,  and  a  depth 
of  100  feet,  ample  provision  was  made  for  the  physical,  intellectual,  social, 
and  religious  improvement  of  young  men.  who  ever  since  have  thronged 
its  rooms.  The  Association's  lease  of  the  building  on  the  southwest 
corner  of  Fulton  Street  and  Gallatin  Place  having  expired  on  May  1.  1 88s, 
it  occupied  temporary  quarters  at  si  7  Fulton  Street  from  that  time  until 
the  opening  of  the  new  building. 

The  possession  of  the  new  building  suggested  a  change  in  the  Articles 
of  Incorporation  under  which  the  Association  had  been  working,  and  a 
consequent  change  in  its  Constitution.  Indeed,  most  of  the  changes 
effected  in  the  Charter  and  Constitution  of  the  Association  have  grown 
out  of  new  requirements  made  by  the  possession  or  anticipation  of  new 
buildings.  A  very  simple  Certificate  of  Incorporation,  made  pursuant  to 
a  statute  already  in  existence,  served  the  purpose  in  the  early  days  of  the 
organization,  and  on  December  10.  1 S  =.  3 .  the  following  was  filed  in  the 
office  of  the  Secretary  of  State  at  Albany  :  --  We.  the  undersigned  citizens 
of  the  State  of  New  York,  of  full  age.  desiring  to  associate  ourselves  for  a 
benevolent  purpose,  do  hereby,  pursuant  to  the  statute  in  such  case  made 
and  provided,  certify,  that  the  name  by  which  the  Society  or  Incorpora- 
tion, hereby  to  be  formed,  shall  be  known  in  law  as  'The  Brooklyn 
Young  Men's  Christian  Association':  that  the  object  and  business  of  the 
Societ)  is  to  improve  the  spiritual,  intellectual,  and  social  condition  o\ 
young  men:  that  the  managers  are  thirty  in  number,  and  that  the  names 
of  the  managers  for  the  first  year  ol  the  existence  oi  the  Society  are  as 
follows."    But  with  its  entrance  into  a  larger  field  of  activity,  as  it  became 


FIFTY  YEARS  IX  BROOKLYN  47 

housed  in  the  building  on  the  southwest  corner  of  Fulton  Street  and 
Gallatin  Place  in  186s,  and  with  its  anticipation  of  even  a  larger  building 
of  its  own.  the  Association  secured  a  special  act  of  incorporation  on  May 
S,  1869,  through  Chapter  7^7  of  the  Laws  of  the  State  of  New  York  of 
that  year,  entitled  "An  Act  to  Incorporate  the  Brooklyn  Young  Men's 
Christian  Association.''  The  first  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Association 
brought  into  existence  by  this  Act  comprised  the  following  gentlemen: 
Messrs.  Frederick  Marquand,  Pitt  Cooke.  Thomas  Vernon,  James  R. 
Taylor.  Abraham  J.  Beekman,  William  C.  Rushmore,  and.  ex-officio, 
William  W.  Wickes,  President,  William  M.  Martin.  Treasurer,  and  Enos 
N.  Taft,  Corresponding  Secretary  of  the  Board  of  Directors.  This  act 
was  amended  on  May  19,  1876,  through  Chapter  Vi\  of  the  Laws  of  New 
York  State  of  that  year,  one  of  the  principal  provisions  of  the  amendment 
being  that  "  the  election  of  Directors  shall  be  by  the  Board.  The  Act 
was  still  further  amended  on  June  13,  1881,  through  Chapter  400  of  the 
Laws  of  New  York  State  of  that  year,  more  specific  provision  being  made 
through  the  amendment  for  "  taking  and  holding  by  purchase,  gift,  devise 
or  otherwise,  and  selling,  leasing,  mortgaging  or  otherwise  disposing  of 
any  personal  and  real  estate,  the  annual  income  of  which  real  estate  shall 
not  exceed  $50,000."  This  amendment  was  doubtless  inspired  by  the 
offer  of  Mr.  Marquand  of  $20,000  for  a  new  building  to  which  reference 
has  already  been  made.  Once  more  the  Act  was  amended  on  May  ?i, 
1884,  through  Chapter  437  of  the  Laws  of  New  York  State  of  that  year. 
one  of  the  principal  provisions  of  this  amendment  being,  that  "'such  real 
estate  as  the  Association  may  hereafter  acquire  by  gift  or  grant  from 
Virginia  M.  Monroe,  Alanson  Trask  and  Daniel  W.  McWilliams.  residuary 
legatees  of  Frederick  Marquand,  deceased,  or  any  of  them,  shall  not  be 
mortgaged.''  Prior  to  the  amendment  of  1884  the  Board  of  Trustees 
had  a  more  or  less  nominal  existence,  inasmuch  as  the  Association  did 
not  possess  any  real  estate.  With  the  acquirement  of  the  new  building 
and  an  Endowment  Fund,  however,  the  Board  of  Trustees  came  very 
actively  into  the  life  of  the  Association,  and  have  ever  since  maintained  a 
vital  relation  to  it.  No  important  action  with  reference  to  the  real  estate 
01  funds  of  the  Association  has  been  taken  since  without  their  concur- 


48  FIFTY  YEARvS  IN  BROOKLYN 

rence.   the  funds  of  the  Association  have  been  invested  by  them,   and 
during  the  eighteen  years  of  theii  active  existence,  they  have  turned  over 

to  the  Directors  of  the  Association,  for  the  support 
of  its  work,  from  rentals  and  income  of  Endow- 

#ment  Fund  $224.7^6.  this  having  been  accomp- 
lished without  the  loss  of  any  funds.  For  twelve 
years  before  his  death  in  1902.  Mr.  Alanson  Trask 
was  the  Chairman  of  this  Board,  being  succeeded 
by  Mr.  Cornelius  D.  Wood,  the  present  Chairman, 
and  as  early  as  18^6  a  Director  ol  the  Association. 
The  other  present  members  of  this  Board  are: 
Mr.  George  Foster  Peabody,  Vice-Chairman; 
c.orn.iius  d.  Wood  Mr.  Daniel  W.  Mc  Williams.  Secretary-Treasurer : 

and  Messrs.  John  Gibb.  Frank  S.  Jones.  Charles  M.  Pratt.  James  H.  Post. 
Charles  A.  Schieren,  and,  ex-oflicio.  Edward  P.  Lyon. 

The  changes  in  the  Charter  were  sometimes  suggested  by  needed 
changes  in  the  Constitution.  The  first  Constitution  adopted  on  June  jo, 
1853,  was  amended  in  order  to  embody  the  results  of  experience  in  the 
new  work,  including  a  reduction  in  the  number  of  managers,  on  February 
12.  1856.  It  was  further  amended  in  18(39.  1882,  188=..  and  finally  in 
i,  each  of  these  changes  being  effected  after  much  deliberation,  and 
in  order  to  aid  the  Association  more  adequately  to  do  its  growing  work, 
and  meet  the  more  exacting  requirements  of  its  wider  field  of  effort. 


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Chapter 


The  Period  of  Owned  Buildings. 
1 885-1 903. 

The  building  at  502  Fulton  Street  was  opened  on  September  29,  1885. 
Members  flocked  in  large  numbers  to  the  enjoyment  of  its  privileges,  and 
within  two  years  taxed  its  capacity  to  the  utmost.  It  soon  became  evi- 
dent that  the  one  building,  generously  as  it  was  planned,  could  not  meet 
the  requirements,  lor  such  privileges  as  it  offered,  of  a  city  with  a  popula- 
tion ol  700,000.  Requests  commenced  to  come  in  from  various  sections 
of  the  City  for  the  establishment  of  convenient  Branches,  and  the 
response  to  these,  and  similar  requests  made  later,  constitutes  one  of  the 
characteristic  features  of  the  period  upon  which  we  are  now  entering. 
These  were  by  no  means  the  first  requests  that  the  Association  had 
received  for  the  establishment  of  Branches,  nor  had  other  parts  of  Brook- 
lyn gone  during  these  years  without  Associations,  established  either  as 
independent  organizations  or  as  Branch  enterprises.  The  Williamsburgh 
Association  was  organized  in  July,  18=.=,.  Its  existence  seems  to  have 
been  a  briel  one.  but  it  was  revived  under  the  name  of  the  Eastern  Dis- 
trict Association,  which  was  organized  October  24.  1866,  under  the 
presidency  of  Mr.  Joseph  F.  Knapp,  with  two  hundred  members,  and 
with  rooms  at  "  Fourth  Street,  near  Fifth  Street."  This  organization  was 
maintained  for  about  seven  years.  An  East  Brooklyn  Association  is 
reported  to  have  been  in  existence  in  lS^s.  and  to  have  held  a  public 
meeting  in  the  Clinton  Avenue  Congregational  Church.  It  does  not  seem. 
however,  to  have  had  an  active  or  localized  existence  until  September, 
1866,  when  it  took  possession  of  rooms  at  60^;  Myrtle  Avenue.  This 
Association  like  the  one  in  the  Eastern  District  ceased  its  active  life  in 
1*7^.     The  records  indicate  the  existence  for  a  single  year,  in  1870.  of  an 

ociation  in  East  New  York,  under  the  presidency  of  Mr.  Ditmas  Jewell, 
with  a  room  at  the  corner  of  Atlantic  and  Pennsylvania  Avenues.     A 


50  FIFTY  YEARS  IN  BROOKLYN" 

Greenpoint  Association  came  into  existence  in  1869,  and  was  maintained 
for  five  years.  In  1868  a  band  of  young  men  living  in  South  Brooklyn, 
and  another  band  living  in  New  Utrecht,  made  application  to  the  Board 
of  Managers  for  recognition  as  Branches  of  the  Brooklyn  Association  in 
their  respective  fields.  Elaborate  articles  constituting  "a  general  basis 
for  Branches  "  were  formulated.  These  provided,  among  other  things, 
that  a  fixed  proportion,  or  some  definite  annual  amount  from  the  dues  of 
members  identified  with  the  Branches,  together  with  any  excess  of 
receipts  over  expenditures,  should  be  placed  at  the  disposal  of  the  Asso- 
ciation for  its  general  work.  These  articles  proving  acceptable  to  the 
young  men  of  South  Brooklyn  and  New  Utrecht,  Branches  were  estab- 
lished in  those  neighborhoods,  the  former  in  1868  and  the  latter  in  1869. 
There  are  no  records  of  work  done  by  the  South  Brooklyn  Branch.  The 
New  Utrecht  organization,  however,  was  maintained  as  a  Branch  for 
several  years,  after  which,  and  until  within  very  recent  times,  it  main- 
tained a  separate  existence  in  a  small  property  of  its  own.  The  Branch 
relationship  was  established  in  1878  with  an  organization  in  the  "  Town 
of  New  Lots,"  the  financial  provisions  differing  in  this  case,  in  that  while 
the  Branch  should  be  self-sustaining,  its  income  should  be  under  its  own 
control  and  for  its  own  benefit,  and  the  parent  Association  should  not  be 
under  any  obligation  for  the  indebtedness  of  the  Branch.  No  further  record 
of  this  Bianch  is  given.  The  German  Young  Men's  Christian  Association 
was  organized  in  1878,  secured  a  small  building  of  it  own.  and  although 
without  a  paid  executive  officer,  and  without  offering  main'  of  the  varied 
privileges  which  are  now  found  in  connection  with  the  Young  Men's 
Christian  Association,  still  maintains  its  existence  on  Flushing  Avenue. 

This  is  the  fragmentary  record  of  the  establishment  of  independent 
Associations  and  Branch  organizations  in  various  parts  o\  Brooklyn, 
during  the  first  twenty-five  years  of  the  life  of  the  Brooklyn  Association. 
As  will  be  noted,  none  of  these  Associations,  or  Branches,  with  the  excep- 
tion of  the  last,  has  continued  until  the  present  time,  and  most  of  them 
had  a  brief  and  precarious  existence.  The  principal  Association  organ- 
ization in  Brooklyn,  as  represented  by  the  Brooklyn  Association,  had  not 
yet  reached  that  state  of  assured  Stability  and  acceptance  with  the  com- 


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munity  which  made  it  ;t  source  of  life  to  its  Branches,  or  a  tower  of 
strength  to  other  Associations  in  its  vicinity.  With  its  establishment  in 
the  new  building  at  =.02  Fulton  Street,  however,  the  Association  found 
itself  strong  enough  to  maintain  Branches  in  various  sections  of  the  city, 
although  even  then  this  task  was  not  accomplished  without  arduous 
efforts  and  serious  drafts  upon  the  life  of  the  Central  Association.  In 
response  to  the  request  of  over  two  hundred  young  men  of  the  Eastern 
District,  addressed  to  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Association,  a  Branch 
was  opened  in  that  section  of  the  City,  in  what  was  known  as  Yale  Hall. 
a  rented  building  at  ni  South  Eighth  Street,  on  October  21,  1889.  This 
Branch  has  had  as  Chairmen:  Messrs.  O.  W.  Van  Cam  pen,  Jr.,  George 
W.  Schaedle  and  Dr.  James  W.  Fleming,  while  its  secretaryship  has 
been  filled  by  Messrs.  Harvey  L.  Simmons.  William  Knowles  Cooper 
and  Fred  1).  Fagg.  In  small  and  inadequate  quarters  it  has  maintained  a 
vigorous  activity  through  gymnasium,  evening  classes,  religious  meetings 
and  social  functions.  On  March  14.  1899,  Mr.  B.  H.  Howell,  a  resident 
of  the  Eastern  District  for  many  years,  gave  $20,000  as  the  nucleus  ol  a 
Buildaig  Fund  for  this  Branch.  Since  that  time  the  Fund  has  been  in- 
creased to  $175,000,  an  amount  which  it  is  proposed  to  increase  to  at 
least  $250,0  >o  for  the  purpose  of  providing  a  modern  and  suitable  Asso- 
ciation building  for  the  Branch,  on  the  corner  of  South  Ninth  Street  and 
Marcy  Avenue,  the  site  of  the  old  Calvary  Protestant  Episcopal  Church. 
Before  the  Eastern  District  Branch  had  been  organized,  a  similar  petition 
was  received  from  the  young  men  of  the  Bedford  section  of  the  City  for  the 
establishment  of  a  Branch  at  that  point.  This  petition  was  granted,  and 
on  October  1.  1890,  the  building  at  420  Gates  Avenue  secured  for  $27,000 
by  the  Association,  subject  to  the  mortgages  and  without  the  payment  of 
money,  was  opened.  Later,  a  fully  equipped  gymnasium  was  erected  at 
.1  cosl  "i  about  $10,000.  This  Branch  has  been  presided  over  successively 
by  Messrs.  Alon/o  Alford,  Edward  P.  I. yon  and  Alphon/o  Smith,  with 
Messrs.  Edward  H.  Foot,  Harry  F.  Cantel,  William  H.  Davis,  and 
Halsey  Hammond  as  Secretaries.  In  this  building,  somewhat  larger  than 
that  of  the  Eastern  District,  but  still  inadequate  to  the  needs  of  from  five 
handled  to  seven  hundred  members,  have  been   provided  various  Asso- 


52  FIFTY  YEARS  IX  BROOKLYN 

ciation  privileges,  with  such  ;i  measure  of  success  that  this  Branch  like 
the  Eastern  District  Branch  is  making  an  appeal  to  its  community  for  the 
erection  of  a  suitable  building.  In  the  early  part  of  1901,  Mr.  Frank  S. 
Jones  made  a  cash  contribution  of  $20,000,  to  inaugurate  the  building 
fund  of  this  Branch,  an  amount  that  had  been  increased  by  subscriptions 
from  other  citizens  to  $130,000.  Lots  at  the  corner  of  Bedford  Avenue 
and  Monroe  Street  were  subsequently  purchased,  and  steps  taken  to 
double  at  least  the  amount  of  the  fund.  The  Prospect  Park  Branch  was 
established  in  October  1,  1891,  in  a  rented  house,  at  362  Ninth  Street. 
This  building  served  the  purposes  of  the  Branch  until  January,  1893, 
when  the  main  building  of  the  present  property,  at  559  Ninth  Street, 
was  purchased  for  822,700,  subject  to  mortgages  of  $16,700,  which  have 
since  in  part  been  cancelled,  while  an  effort  is  in  progress  to  cover  the 
balance.  In  the  early  part  of  1899,  a  gymnasium  was  added  to  the  other 
equipment  of  the  Branch,  at  a  cost  of  about  $20,000.  The  Chairman  and 
generous  patron  of  the  Branch  from  the  beginning  has  been  Mr.  Seth  W. 
Fox,  and  the  Secretaries  have  been  Messrs.  Henry  Medd,  Ben  M.  Lewis, 
John  G.  Thorne  and  W.  W.  Winne.  The  membership  commencing 
with  about  two  hundred  has  increased  to  over  five  hundred  with  the 
addition  of  the  gymnasium,  and  the  work  of  the  Branch  has  been  main- 
tained with  vigor  and  usefulness  in  spite  of  financial  difficulties.  The 
Twenty-sixth  Ward  Branch  was  organized  on  November  =;.  1893,  and 
immediately  came  into  the  possession  of  lots  and  a  building,  especially 
erected  for  the  purpose,  at  the  corner  of  Pennsylvania  and  Liberty  Ave- 
nues, at  a  cost  of  nearly  $30,000.  Of  this  amount  $16,000  was  covered 
by  the  generous  subscriptions  of  Messrs.  Williamson  Rapalje,  Ditmas 
Jewell,  and  other  citizens  of  the  Twenty-sixth  Ward,  leaving  mortgages 
amounting  to  $14,000,  a  portion  of  which  has  since  been  cancelled,  while 
an  effort  is  now  being  made  to  provide  for  the  balance.  The  Chairmen 
of  this  Branch  have  been  Dr.  George  E.  Law  and  Mr.  Edward  R.  Vollmer, 
and  the  Secretaries.  Messrs.  Fred  1).  harles  E.  Jones  and  William 

Kemp  Nugent.  In  a  new  and  rapidly  growing  section  of  the  City  this 
Branch  has  maintained  an  active  work  among  its  members,  never  less 
than  three  hundred,  and  at  this  time  nearly  five  hundred  in  number. 


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54  FIFTY  YEARS  IN  BROOKLYN 

The  Long  Island  Railroad  Branch  was- established  on  May  26,  1844.  suc- 
ceeding a  club  of  employes,  which  had  not  met  with  a  large  measure  of 
success.  A  building  was  immediately  erected  by  the  Long  Island  Rail- 
road Company  for  this  Branch,  at  45  Borden  Avenue,  at  a  cost  of  §6,000. 
This  building  proved  to  be  inadequate  for  the  four  hundred  members  who 
identified  themselves  with  the  Branch,  and  in  1902  additional  room  was 
provided  by  the  Company  at  a  further  cost  of  S6,ooo.  This  Branch, 
with  the  aid  of  an  annual  appropriation  from  the  Company  has  succeeded 
in  maintaining  itself  without  calling  upon  the  public  for  support,  and 
during  the  past  year  has  widened  out  its  sphere  of  activity,  by  the  estab- 
ment  of  a  point  of  work  at  Prospect  Street.  Jamaica,  in  a  house  also 
provided  by  the  Company.  This  Branch  has  always  been  popular  among 
the  employees  of  the  Long  Island  Railroad  Companv.  and  has  exerted  a 
deeply  religious  influence  upon  many  of  them.  With  the  settlement  o\ 
the  terminal  conditions  of  this  road  the  Branch  has  been  promised  by  its 
President,  Mr.  William  H.  Baldwin,  Jr..  as  complete  a  building  for  the 
purpose,  as  the  Companv  will  erect  for  any  of  its  purposes.  The  Branch 
has  had  three  Chairmen  during  the  ten  years  of  its  existence:  Messrs. 
C.  F.  Franklin.  J.  H.  Cummin,  and  Frank  F.  Haff,  and  one  Secretary. 
Mr.  Neason  Jones. 

During  these  years,  between  [889  and  1894,  the  Association  had  also 
established  a  Long  Island  College  Branch  in  connection  with  the  Long 
Island  College  Hospital,  on  April  1,  1891,  and  a  German  Branch  at  the 
corner  of  Graham  Avenue  and  Debevoise  Street,  on  November  12.  1893. 
The  former  was  maintained  until  [899,  for  a  portion  of  the  time  with 
special  rooms  of  its  own  in  the  vicinity  of  the  College,  but  the  difficulty  01 
securing  suitable  quarters  outside  of  the  College  buildings,  and  yet  con- 
venient to  them,  resulted  in  the  relinquishing  of  this  work  until  such  time 
as  this  obstacle  could  be  overcome.  Two  years  of  experience  in  the 
work  of  the  German  Branch,  under  the  chairmanship  of  Mr.  Robed  W. 
Zundel.  and  the  secretaryship  of  Mr.  Hugo  von  Hagen,  revealed  the  facts 
that  it  was  impossible  to  secure  a  sufficient  amount  of  money  from  the 
neighborhood  to  support  a  fully  equipped  Branch  at  that  point,  and  that 
the  maintenance  of  a  Branch,  exclusively  tor  German  speaking  men.  was 


56  FIFTY  YEARS  IN  BROOKLYN 

not  meeting  here  or  elsewhere  in  the  country  with  the  approval  of  pro- 
gressive young  German  Americans,  who  preferred  the  use  of  the  English 
language,  and  as  there  seemed  to  be  no  good  reason  why  the  work  done 
by  this  Branch  and  by  the  Eastern  District  Branch  should  not  be  con- 
ducted under  one  roof,  these  two  Branches  were  consolidated  in  i 
These  are  the  only  Branch  enterprises  undertaken  by  the  Association 
after  its  entrance  in  the  new  building  at  ^02  Fulton  Street,  which  have 
not  been  maintained  to  the  present  time.  The  wisdom  of  the  Board 
of  Directors,  in  the  selection  of  a  few  of  the  many  points  presented 
to  their  attention  for  the  inauguration  of  Branch  work,  is  apparent 
in  this  fact.  The  Association  at  this  time  was  maintaining  seven 
Branches  in  addition  to  the  work  in  the  Central  building.  With 
the  business  crisis  of  1893.  when  for  a  time  the  maintenance  of  these 
Branches,  established  in  rapid  succession  and  without  having  as  yet  a 
fully  organized  constituency,  seemed  problematical,  the  Board  of  Direc- 
tors decided  that  thev  would  not  inaugurate  new  Branches  that  would 
call  upon  the  public  for  support,  until  those  already  in  existence  had  been 
thoroughly  established.  This  policy,  during  the  ten  years  that  have  since 
intervened,  has  been  rigorously  adhered  to.  in  spite  of  many  opportuni- 
ties for  its  violation,  the  Branches  that  have  since  been  introduced  into 
the  Association  circle  having  been  inaugurated  with  promise  of  special 
financial  backing  outside  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  with  the  exception  of 
the  two  Army  Branches,  which  grew  out  of  the  exigencies  of  the  Spanish 
War.  and  the  Greenpoint  Branch  which  was  already  established  with  a 
constituency  of  its  own. 

The  business  crisis  of  1893  was  also  instrumental  in  part  in  the  estab- 
lishment of  the  Metropolitan  form  of  organization  in  the  Brooklvn 
Ass  >ciation.  This  form  of  organization  hid  been  adopted  by  the 
Associations  of  New  York  City,  Philadelphia,  and  Chicago,  and  consisted 
of  a  general  Board  of  Directors,  exercising  general  supervision  over  the 
work  at  several  points  in  a  city,  designated  as  branches,  each  of  these 
having  in  immediate  charge,  a  Committee  ol  Management  and  a  Secre- 
tary of  its  own,  including  the  original  or  central  building,  which  there- 
upon became  know  n  as  a  Branch.      In   this  view  o\   the  case,    members 


FIFTY  YEARS  IN  BROOKLYN  57 

identified  with  ;iny  of  the  Branches,  were  recognized  as  members  of  the 
Association,  having  the  privilege  of  voting  in  the  election  of  Directors. 
and  were  located  in  buildings  in  various  sections  of  the  city  simply  for 
convenience.  With  the  establishment  of  Branches  in  the  Eastern  District. 
Bedford,  Prospect  Park,  and  Twenty-sixth  Ward  sections,  the  organiza- 
tion in  the  building  at  S02  Fulton  Street  had  come  to  be  known  as  the 
Central  Association.  The  advisory  relation  which  had  to  be  borne  by 
the  Board  of  Directors  and  the  General  Secretary  toward  these  Branches, 
with  the  handling  of  the  affairs,  both  large  and  small  in  the  work  of  the 
Central  building,  gradually  proved  to  be  too  much  of  a  tax  upon  their 
time  and  strength,  and  led  to  the  suggestion  of  a  general  Board  of  Direc- 
tors with  a  Committee  of  Management  .ntd  a  Secretary  in  charge  of  the 
.work  in  the  Central  building.  In  1891,  therefore,  a  special  committee 
appointed  by  the  Board  of  Directors  prepared  a  plan  ol Organization  to  be 
submitted  to  the  Blanches.  In  contrast  with  the  plan  of  operation  of  the 
New  York  Association,  whose  Board  ol  Directors  were  making  annual  ap- 
propriations to  the  Branches,  the  Brooklyn  plan  provided  for  the  bearing  of 
the  expense  of  the  maintenance  of  a  general  office  by  the  Branches.  This 
plan  not  proving  acceptable  to  the  Branches,  further  agitation  of  the  sub- 
ject was  postponed  until  180=,.  by  which  time  the  financial  situation  of 
the  Branches,  by  reason  of  the  condition  of  the  business  world,  had  come 
to  be  critical.  It  v\as  decided,  therefore,  by  the  Board  o\  Directors  to 
undertake  the  raising  of  a  special  hind  out  of  which  appropriations  should 
be  made  to  the  Branches  for  their  indebtedness,  conditioned  upon  the 
securing  of  the  balance  by  them  in  their  respective  districts,  with  the 
expectation  that  an  annual  appropriation  should  thereafter  be  made  by 
the  Board  to  each  of  them  for  its  support.  The  revised  constitution 
which  had  been  prepared  in  1801  was,  therefore,  submitted  to  the  active 
members,  and  by  them  adopted  February  1  ith,  1896,  the  Board  of  Direc- 
tors was  re-organized,  and  .1  Committee  of  Management  and  a  Secretary 
appointed  torthe  Central  Branch,  March  9th,  1896.  Of  this  Committee, 
Mr.  Howard  McWilliams  has  since  been  the  Chairman,  while  the  Secre- 
taries have  been  Messrs.  Harvey  L.  Simmons,  Thornton  B.  Penfield  and 
Charles  W.  Dietrich. 


58  PIFTY  YEARS  IN  BROOKLYN 

As  has  already  been  intimated  the  Spanish  War,  which  brought  into 
life  the  remarkable  department  of  work  among  the  soldiers  and  sailors 
under  the  auspices  of  the  International  Committee  of  Young  Men's  Chris- 
tian Associations,  suggested  also  the  establishment  of  a  Branch  at  Fort 
Hamilton,  to  and  from  which  a  large  number  of  soldiers  were  coming 
and  going  on  their  way  to  the  scene  of  the  War.  This  Branch  was 
therefore  established  on  February  1st.  1900.  in  a  small  portable  house,  the 
property  of  the  Association,  and  was  afterward  transferred  to  one  of  the 
Government  buildings  under  the  general  authority  given  by  the  Secretary 
of  War  to  Young  Men's  Christian  Associations.  The  first  Chairman  of 
this  Branch  was  Mr.  David  Porter,  who  was  succeeded  by  the  present 
Chairman,  Mr.  William  A.  Main.  The  Secretaries  have  been  Messrs. 
John  Upton  rivers.  Carle  1).  Boynton  and  A.  S.  Gaffney.  A  similar 
organization  was  effected  at  Fort  Totten  on  March  10th,  1902,  under  the 
present  officers,  Mr.  William  T.  James.  Chairman,  and  Mr.  Carle  D. 
Boynton,  Secretary.  These  Branches,  with  extremelv  inadequate  quar- 
ters, but  with  the  only  provision  that  could  be  made  for  them  in  view  of 
the  crowded  condition  of  these  reservations,  have  maintained  the  only 
centres  of  religious  influence  that  have  existed  among  the  soldiers  at 
these  points,  and  especially  through  the  Secretary  have  been  an  uplifting 
force  among  the  residents  of  these  garrisons.  The  establishment  of  a 
work  among  the  colored  men  of  the  City  had  been  discussed  as  early  as 
l8qo.  In  1896,  a  temporary  secretary  was  employed  with  reference  to 
securing  financial  support  for  such  a  Branch,  but  it  was  not  until  May  15, 
1902,  that  the  colored  men  found  themselves  housed  in  a  building  ol 
their  own,  presented  to  the  Association  for  them  by  Mr.  George  Foster 
Peabody,  at  a  cost  of  $7,500.  Two  hundred  members  are  identified  with 
this  Branch  under  the  leadership  of  W.  L.  Bulkley,  Ph.D..  Chairman, 
and  Mr.  Charles  H.  Bullock.  Secretary.  The  success  of  the  Association's 
work  on  steam  railroads  suggested  the  feasibility  of  similar  work  among 
the  employes  of  the  street  railroads.  In  November,  1901,  therefore.  Mr. 
J.  M.  Dudley,  the  first  Young  Mens  Christian  Association  Secretary  in 
the  country  to  devote  himself  entirely  to  work  among  street  railroad 
men.  came  to  Brooklyn  as  the   Secretary  ol  the   Brooklyn    Association. 


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60  FIFTY  YEARS  IN  BROOKLYN 

employed  by  the  Brooklyn  Rapid  Transit  Railroad  Company,  to  organize 
a  work  among  the  employes  of  that  company.  This  measure  resulted  in 
the  organization  of  the  Brooklyn  Rapid  Transit  Railroad  Branch,  with  a 
Committee  of  Management  of  which  Mr.  John  Keating  was  appointed 
Chairman.  This  Branch  was  installed  on  July  ist,  190;.  in  a  building 
erected  especially  for  its  men  by  the  Company,  at  the  corner  of  Jamaica 
Avenue  and  Gillen  Place,  at  a  cost  of  840.000.  Reference  has  already 
been  made  to  the  establishment  of  a  Greenpoint  Association  in  1869. 
This  Association  went  out  of  existence  within  live  years,  and  in  1 88=. 
another  Association  was  organized  with  a  property  of  its  own.  valued  at 
$12,000,  and  with  a  mortgage  of  $1,800,  at  7=>2  Manhattan  Avenue. 
The  Brooklyn  Young  Men's  Christian  Association  did  not  find  itself  pre- 
pared at  that  time,  or  for  a  number  of  years  later,  to  enter  into  an  organic 
relationship  with  this  Association,  but  after  maintaining  an  independent 
and  useful  activity  for  a  period  of  eighteen  years  under  the  presidencies 
of  Mr.  John  W.  Cummings,  Dr.  J.  A.  Jenkins,  and  Mr.  Marvin  Briggs. 
it  became  a  Branch  of  the  Brooklyn  Association  on  April  1st.  1001.  its 
President,  Mr.  John  W.  Cummings,  becoming  the  Chairman,  and  its 
Secretary,  Mr.  Arthur  Truslow,  becoming  the  Secretary  of  the  Branch. 
With  the  concurrence  of  the  Committee  of  Management  it  was  decided 
to  enter  upon  a  canvass  for  a  building  that  should  be  suitable  in  its  peculiar 
appointments  to  the  needs  of  the  employes  of  the  many  manufactories 
of  this  section,  this  being  in  line  with  the  development  of  work,  espe- 
cially adapted  to  industrial  centres,  now  being  fostered  by  the  Inter- 
national Committee  of  Young  Men's  Christian  Associations  through  a 
special  department.  A  Manufacturers'  Committee  are  now  engaged  in 
securing  funds  lor  a  building  of  this  kind,  that  will  cost  at  least  $125,000. 
This  building  when  constructed  will  be  the  home  of  a  Workingmen's 
Christian  Association  in  which  a  work  most  closely  indentified  with  their 
interests  and  life  will  be  carried  on.  In  1901,  lw  the  gift  of  Miss  Helen 
M.  Could  to  the  International  Committee  of  Young  Men's  Christian 
Associations,  a  building  was  elected  at  107  Sands  Street.  Brooklyn,  at  a 
cost  of  nearly  $  and    placed    under   the  direction    of  the   Naval 

Branch  which  was  organized  on   March   1st.   1899.     This  Branch,  while 


FIFTY  YEARS  IN  BROOKLYN' 

Chairmen  of  Branches,  1903 


61 


I  loward  McWilliams 

Iral  Branch 


James  W.  Fleming 
Eastern  District  lir.mth 


Alphonzo  Smith 
Krdfont  Branch 


Seth  W.  Fox 

■  I'.irk  Branch 


Edward  K.  Voll 


Frank  I-:.  Hafl 
Island  K  R.  Branch 


62  FIFTY  YEARS  IX  BROOKLYN 

not  organically  related  to  the  Brooklyn  Young  Men's  Christian  Associa- 
tion in  the  same  way  as  the  other  Branches,  is,  nevertheless,  affiliated 
with  the  Brooklyn  Association  movement.  The  Committee  of  Manage- 
ment is  appointed  by  the  International  Committee,  subject  to  the  ap- 
proval of  the  Board  of  Directors,  which  has  the  privilege  of  appointing 
two  of  its  number  to  serve  as  members  of  the  Committee  of  Manage- 
ment. These  two  representatives  are  Messrs.  Daniel  W.  McWilliams, 
Treasurer  of  the  Branch,  and  Edward  P.  Lyon,  while  the  Secretary  of 
the  Blanch  is  Mr.  W.  L.  Tisdale.  The  first  special  effort  of  the  Brooklyn 
Association  to  provide  privileges  for  its  members  during  the  summer 
among  surroundings  suitable  to  the  season  was  made  in  1897,  at  which 
time  special  privileges  at  specified  times  were  secured  for  the  members  in 
connection  with  a  hotel  on  the  water  front  at  Bath  Beach.  The  follow- 
ing season  a  small  portable  house  was  erected  for  the  purpose  in  the 
neighborhood.  This  was  followed  in  the  succeeding  summer  by  the 
rental  of  a  large  old-fashioned  house,  also  on  the  water  front  at  Bath 
Beach,  where  privileges  of  boating,  bathing  and  social  intercourse,  were 
afforded  to  the  membership.  Efforts  to  find  a  suitable  house  for  the  fol- 
lowing season  having  failed,  this  department  of  activity  was  suspended 
until  such  time  as  the  Association  should  be  able  to  secure  a  building  of 
its  own  suited  to  the  purpose.  In  i8g^.  and  for  a  number  of  succeeding 
summers,  a  camp  for  young  men  at  Lake  Waccabuc.  New  York,  under 
the  direction  of  Mr.  Hugo  von  Hagen.  was  largely  patronized  by  members 
of  the  Brooklyn  Association.  This  Camp  came  by  lease  into  the  posses- 
sion of  the  Brooklyn  Association  in  the  summer  of  1 902,  and  is  patronized 
to  its  utmost  capacity  by  considerable  numbers  of  the  members  of  the 
Association,  who  go  to  this  point  to  spend  their  vacation  amid  the  social 
and  helpful  environment,  created  by  its  conduct  under  Association  aus- 
pices. The  Chairman  of  the  Committee  of  Management  of  this  Camp  has 
been  Mr.  Cornelius  S.  Loder,  and  its  Secretaries,  gentlemen  assigned  to 
the  duties  of  the  office  from  time  to  time.  During  the  summers  ol 
and  i8l)1  athletic  grounds  for  the  entire  Association  were  maintained 
near  the  Manhattan  Crossing,  bul  the  distance  of  these  grounds  from 
the   local    Branch   centers   interfered    with    then    use   In    a   sufficiently 


FIFTY  YEARS  IX  BROOKLYN 

Chairmen  of  Branches,  iaoi 


William  A.  Main 
In  1 1  million  Arniv  Brani  h 


Brooklyn  Rapid  I  ranail  Branch 


Jolin  W.  Cummings 
Branch 


Cornelius  S.  Loder 
Camp  Waccabuc 


64  FIFTY  YEARS  IN  BROOKLYN" 

large  number  of  members  to  justify  their  continuance,  and  with  the  excep- 
tion of  smaller  grounds  located  usually  on  vacant  lots  by  individual 
Branches,  or  leased  from  other  institutions  from  year  to  year,  this  privi- 
lege has  not  been  maintained. 

The  record  of  the  work  of  the  Association  for  these  years,  between 
188s  and  1903.  is  largely  the  record  of  the  work  of  these  Branches,  the 
organization  of  which  has  thus  been  specifically  described.  It  will  be 
noted  that  the  Association  during  these  years  has  devoted  a  large  measure 
of  attention  to  the  adaptation  of  privileges,  already  provided  for  a  limited 
number  of  men,  to  various  classes  of  men  in  the  community.  So  the 
library  and  reading  room,  lectures  and  entertainments,  evening  classes, 
religious  meetings,  the  gymnasium  and  social  privileges  have  been  carried, 
to  the  extent  to  which  they  were  needed,  to  men  on  both  steam  and 
street  railroads,  to  soldiers  in  the  Forts  and  sailors  in  the  Navy  Yard,  to 
colored  men  and  factory  men.  as  well  as  to  men  in  the  enjoyment  of 
their  summer  outings.  A  further  adaptation  of  the  Association's  work 
which  should  not  be  overlooked  is  found  in  the  placing  of  all  the  more 
important  privileges  of  the  Association,  physical,  intellectual,  social  and 
religious,  within  the  reach  of  bovs  between  twelve  and  sixteen  years  of 
age.  This  is  distinctively  a  development  of  the  period  which  we  are 
now  considering,  and  has  resulted,  through  the  outgrowing  of  the  meagre 
provision  made  for  boys  in  the  present  buildings,  in  an  appeal  for  a  special 
building  for  them  to  be  located  in  the  Central  district,  and  for  the  assign- 
ment of  very  generous  quarters  to  them  in  the  buildings  soon  to  be  erected 
in  the  other  Branch  districts.  Another  more  recent  development  of  this 
period  is  the  holding  of  large  evangelistic  meetings  for  men  under  the 
auspices  of  the  Central  Branch  in  the  Orpheum  Theatre.  It  is  noteworthy 
that  while  the  activities  of  the  Association  are  more  varied  than  at  any 
previous  time  in  its  history,  and  while  these  activities  run  out  through 
channels,  physical,  intellectual  and  social,  as  well  as  spiritual,  these 
meetings  are  probably  attended  by  a  much  larger  number  of  men  than 
ever  attended  .my  regular  evangelistic  meetings  ol  the  Association  in  the 
past,  even  when  its  activities  were  almost  exclusively  evangelistic,  and 
that  no  meetings  that  the  Association  ever  held  have  been  characterized 


FIFTY  YEARS  IN  BROOKLYN  65 

by  greater  spiritual  fervor  or  by  more  careful  arrangements  for  following 
up  their  results  and  locating  the  men  impressed  in  the  Brooklyn  churches. 
If  one  were  called  upon  to  characterize  the  work  of  this  period  in 
comparison  with  that  of  the  two  previous  periods  considered,  which  were 
designated  as  missionary  and  evangelistic  in  their  trend,  he  might  call 
this  the  educational  period  of  the  Association,  Not  that  the  Association 
has  ceased  to  be  either  missionary  or  evangelistic  in  its  purpose  and  per- 
formance: for  as  has  just  been  indicated  the  Association  has  never  pro- 
duced better  evangelistic  results  than  at  the  present  time,  while  its 
missionary  spirit  is  demonstrated  by  the  carrying  of  its  privileges  not 
only  to  the  uttermosl  bounds  of  the  City,  but  also  in  its  gilts,  amounting 
to  over  82.  =,00  in  1901.  to  the  work  of  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Asso- 
ciations in  foreign  lands.  Indeed,  whatevei  experience  has  proved  to  be 
the  best  in  the  missionary  and  evangelistic  periods  of  the  Association  has 
been  carried  over  into  the  woi  k  of  the  present  period.  And  vet  the 
trend  of  that  period  has  bem  distinctly  educational.  The  Physical 
Department  has  come  to  exist  not  merely  lor  sport  or  recreation,  but  foi 
physical  education.  The  Physical  I  Mrectors  ol  the  Association  have  come  to 
be  men  either  with  medical  training,  or  with  special  preparation  in  anatomy 
and  physiology.  The  exercise  has  not  been  filtered  into  indiscriminately, 
but  has  been  regularly  prescribed  with  a  view  to  the  needs  of  the  individ- 
ual, like  the  hygiene  of  the  doctor.  There  has  been  no  attempt  to  build 
up  one  set  of  muscles  at  the  expense  of  another,  and  no  training  in 
specialities,  but  all  around  work  has  been  inculcated,  so  that  while  the 
recreation  features  have  been  presented,  the  exercise  has  been  based  upon 
an  educational  principle,  and  conducted  for  the  development  of  the  all 
around  man.  The  Educational  Department  has  also  become  more  truly 
educational.  The  treatment  ol  the  evening  classes  as  a  place  of  resort, 
and  the  attempt  to  build  up  a  large  enrollment  at  the  expense  of  thorough- 
ness have  been  discouraged,  and  for  a  number  of  years  students  have 
been  dissuaded  from  identifying  themselves  with  more  than  one  or  two 
classes  at  a  time,  lest  in  attempting  loo  much  work  they  should  do  none 
of  it  well.  Even  the  social  features  of  the  Association  have  come  to  be 
educational.     Many  of  the  social  functions  are  attended   with  pictures, 


66  FIFTY  YEARS  IX  BROOKLYN 

charts,  or  exhibitions  intended  to  widen  the  knowledge  of  the  men  and 
enlarge  their  outlook  upon  life,  and  an  effort  made  to  make  these  events 
a  distinctively  developmental  force  in  the  mental  as  well  as  the  social  life 
of  members.  The  religious  work  of  the  Association  has  also  come  to  In- 
more  educational  in  its  nature  than  formerly.  There  has  been,  perhaps, 
less  emotion  and  excitement,  and  a  distinct  attempt  made  to  have  the 
religious  services  tell  on  the  all  around  development  of  men.  While 
these  have  not  been  less  aggressive  and  forcible  than  of  old.  they  have 
looked  more  than  formerly  to  the  development  of  an  intelligent  faith,  and  a 
reasonable  religious  interest.  The  Bible  Classes  have  been  organized  after 
the  pattern  of  the  Educational  Department,  with  such  a  number  of  graded 
classes  as  to  appeal  to  the  needs  and  tastes  of  a  variety  of  men.  and  in 
many  cases  with  expert  instruction.  The  number  of  men,  who  have  come 
into  the  Association  for  the  enjoyment  of  the  privileges  of  the  Phvsical 
Department,  and  have  come  to  be  identified  with  its  Bible  Classes,  is  an 
indication  of  the  extent  to  which  these  classes  have  entered  as  a  control- 
ling factor  into  the  life  of  men  not  necessarily  up  to  this  time  religious. 
Three  distinct  forward  movements  of  a  tinanical  character  have  been 
made  during  the  period  now  under  consideration.  In  lSXu.  on  the  initia- 
tive of  Col.  Willis  L.  Ogden,  a  Century  Guarantee  Committee  was  inau- 
gurated, on  the  plan  of  finding  one  hundred  men.  each  of  whom  should 
become  responsible  for  one  per  cent,  of  the  deficiency  of  the  Association, 
existing  at  the  close  of  the  fiscal  year,  with  the  proviso  that  the  individ- 
ual proportion  should  in  no  case  exceed  $100,  Seventy  names  were 
immediatelv  enrolled,  a  number  that  was  soon  increased  to  one  hundred, 
at  which  number,  except  in  unusual  years,  it  has  been  maintained.  While 
the  plan  has  had  the  disadvantage  of  limiting  the  gifts  of  many  men,  w  ho 
were  able  to  contribute  in  larger  amounts,  to  an  annual  subscription  o\ 
$100  or  less,  it  has  provided  an  assured  income  for  the  maintenance,  first 
of  the  Central  Association,  and  later  ol  the  supervisory  work  of  the  Board 
■  ■I  Directors  from  year  to  year,  and  has  interested  a  large  number  of  men 
in  the  welfare  ofthe  Association.  In  September,  1894,  il  was  announced 
that  by  reason  of  the  rapid  inauguration  ^(  Branch  enterprises,  An^.\  the 
reverses  in  financial  circles  of  the  year  iSu^s.  the  combined  indebtedness 


PIFTY  YEARS  IX  BROOKLYN  67 

of  the  Central  Association  ;ind  Branches  amounted  to  $25,000.  It  was 
determined  to  create  an  Emergency  Fund  of  that  amount  which  should 
be  used  in  meeting  this  indebtedness.  After  strenuous  efforts  covering  a 
period  of  over  two  years,  during  which  time  the  further  obligations  of  the 
Association  had  increased  the  deficiency  to  be  met  to  $40,000,  the  whole 
of  the  last  named  amount  was  raised.  Since  that  time  the  deficiency  of 
each  year  both  of  the  Board  of  Directors  and  all  the  Branches  has  been 
provided  for,  either  within  the  limits  of  the  fiscal  year,  or  within  the  year 
immediately  following.  In  the  Spring  of  1902,  with  the  rapidly  increas- 
ing needs  of  several  of  the  Branches  for  larger  equipment,  and  the 
imperative  necessity,  if  the  work  was  to  be  enlarged,  for  the  cancelling 
of  mortgage  indebtedness  by  other  Branches,  it  was  decided  to  inaugur- 
ate a  Jubilee  Building  bund  off  »x>  for  the  erection  of  buildings  and 
tlie  payment  of  mortgages  prior  to  the  Fiftieth  Anniversary  of  the  Asso- 
ciation in  the  ball  of  1909.  The  following  Committee  was  appointed: 
Missis.  Daniel  W.  McWilliams,  Edwin  Packard.  Frederic  B.  Pratt.  Samuel 
Rowland,  William  C.  Red  field,  William  McCarroll,  and  Henry  B.  Haigh. 
'fhe  objects  foi   which  this  fund  was  asked  were  as  follows: 

Building,  Eastern  District  Branch $250,000 

Building,  Bedford  Branch :;o.c*m> 

■   Building,  Greenpoinl  Branch 75,000 

,  Prospecl  I'. nk  Branch 16,700 

Mortgage,  Twenty-sixth  Ward  Branch    .  10 

These  items  did  not  cover  the  entire  list  of  the  Association's  needs. 
There  might  have  been  added  x 100.000  for  a  building  tor  the  Bo\s 
Department  in  the  Central  District.  ,$7=..o<x>  for  Summer  Headquarters, 
and  at  least  $5,000  tor  each  of  the  two  Army  Branches.  Moreover,  as 
the  canvass  progressed,  and  the  cost  of  building  materials  increased,  and 
more  accurate  estimates  of  the  expense  of  such  buildings  were  received, 
it  was  found  that  the  Bedford  Branch  would  need  over  $300,000,  and  the 
Greenpoint  Branch,  at  least.  $125,000.  Bv  the  Spring  of  1903,  towards  the 
ginally  asked  lor.  something  over  $425,000  was  secured.  ( )ne 
of  the  most  significant  events  in  the  record  of  this  canvas  was  the  contri- 
bution of  $100,000  bv  Mr.  John  1).  Rockefeller  through  the  following  letter: 


68  FIFTY  YEARS  IN"  BROOKLYN 

263&ctxabxxt&%, 


December  2nd,   1902. 


Dear  Mr.   Pratt: 

Some  months  ago  you  desired  me  to  lay  before  my  father  the  needs 
of  the  various  branches  of   the  Brooklyn  Y.H.C.A.  and   the  plan  whicn  was 
on  foot  for  the  raising  of  six  hundred  thousand  dollars  ((600,000)   to  meet 
these  needs.  Ur.  Murphy,   as  you  know,   has  given   the  subject  careful 

study  and  has  made  an  exhaustive   report  of   the  same   to  us.  Under- 

standing that  of    the  $600,000  required,  approximately  $20q,000  has  already 
been  subscribed  by  others,  my  father  will  contribute  One  Hundred  Thous- 
and dollars  without  condition.  This  amount  will  be  paid  when  and   to 
whom  you  nay  direct. 

Very  truly, 


L 


C 


Mr.  Frederick  B.  Pratt, 

26  Broadway,  Nsw  York. 

The  special  gifts  and  bequests  of  this  period,  devoted  without  excep- 
tion to  the  permanent  funds  or  buildings  of  the  Association,  have  been 
larger  and  more  frequent  than  those  of  any  previous  period,  amounting 
i"  $56,947,  in  addition  to  the  large  amounts  subscribed  specifically  for 
building  funds,  in  comparison  with  $5,628  received  up  to  1885  through 
similar  sources.  There  has  been  a  significant  increase  also  dining  this 
period  in  the  amount  expended  for  the  current  support  of  the  Association. 
as  was  natural  with  the  great  enlargement  of  its  work.  The  current 
expenses  < ■  t  1884  the  last  full  year  in  the  building  on  the  southwesl 
corner  of  Fulton  Street  and  Gallatin  Place,  amounted  to  $12,666.  For  the 
year  1886,  the  fust  lull  year  in  the  new    building  at   50a  Fulton  Street. 


FIFTY  YEARS  IN  BROOKLYN  69 

they  were  x  "52,472.40.  During  the  year  1903  thev  amounted  to  nearly 
Sim),  000.  About  38  percent,  of  this  amount  came  from  donations,  about 
^7  per  cent,  from  membership  fees,  and  the  balance  from  the  income  of 
the  Endowment  Fund,  rentals,  and  miscellaneous  sources.  With  an 
expenditure  of  this  amount,  the  net  deficiency  of  the  entire  Association, 
after  allowing  for  outstanding  subscriptions,  on  September  30th,  1903, 
was  less  than  s  1.200.  On  April  1st,  iooo,  in  response  to  a  demand  tor 
more  thorough  business  methods  in  the  Association,  and  the  freeing  of 
Branch  secretaries  from  the  work  of  bookkeeping,  a  single  treasury  for 
the  Board  of  Directors  and  all  the  Branches  was  established  at  the  Central 
building,  with  Mr.  Samuel  Rowland  and  Mr.  Frank  H.  Parsons  as  Trea- 
surer and  Assistant  Treasurer,  respectively.  The  accounts  have  since 
been  audited  from  time  to  time  by  an  expert  auditor,  through  the  courtesy 
of  Charles  Pratt  &  Company.  During  the  last  year  in  tin-  Gallatin  Place 
building  the  Association  had  a  membership  of  seventeen  hundred  and 
forty-three:  during  the  first  year  in  the  building  at  =.02  Fulton  Street,  a 
membership  of  two  thousand,  a  number  that  has  increased  with  the 
location  of  Branches  in  various  parts  of  the  City  to  fifty-six  hundred  in 
1903.  There  is.  perhaps,  no  building  of  the  Association  that  is  not  at  the 
present  time  fully  taxed  by  the  membership  identified  with  it. 

The  Association  has  been  fortunate  during  this  period  in  the  selection 
of  its  Presidents.  It  has  also  been  favored  with  greater  permanency  in 
this  office  than  had  characterized  the  previous  periods.  During  the 
twenty  years,  between  1883  and  1903,  the  Association  has  had  but  three 
Presidents,  while  during  the  thirty  preceding  years  it  had  twenty-one 
Presidents.  Mr.  Edwin  Packard,  as  has  already  been  stated,  served  the 
Association  most  efficiently  as  its  President  between  1883  and  1890.  He 
was  succeeded  by  Mr.  Frederick  B.  Schenck.  who  was  President  for  the 
next  eight  years,  and  until  his  removal  from  the  city  compelled  the 
acceptance  of  his  resignation  by  the  Board  of  Directors.  During  the 
early  period  ol  its  rapid  Branch  extension,  Mr.  Schenck  gave  to  the 
Association  a  wise,  sympathetic  and  vet  conservative  business  leadership. 
which  contributed  very  largely  to  its  establishment  in  the  confidence  of 
the  community.      He  gave  to  each   important  phase  of  the   Association's 


FIFTY  YEARS  IN  BROOKLYN 

Presidents  of  the  Association,  1883-1903 


Edwin  Packard 
i88v'oo 


Frederick  B.  Schenck 
.'98 


Edward  P.  Lyon 

-      on", 


work,  whether  in  the  Central  Building  or  Branches,  his  personal  atten- 
tion, and  during  a  time  that  was  trying,  financially,  and  also  full  of 
opportunities  to  the  Association,  shirked  no  duty  however  great  or 
small.  He  was  succeeded  in  1898  by  Mr.  Edward  P.  Lyon,  who  had 
served  the  Association  as  the  Chairman  of  the  Bedford  Branch  for  four 
years,  and  who  is  still  President  of  the  Association.  He  has  brought  to 
the  Presidency  ;i  sympathetic  understanding  of  the  Association's  spirit  and 
purpose,  judicial  balance  of  mind,  legal  acumen,  and  fidelity  to  the  trust 
reposed  in  him.  Both  of  the  last  named  Presidents  have  been  called 
upon  to  give  a  large  measure  o\  their  time  to  actual  visitation  of  the 
Branches,  in  order  to  an  understanding  of  their  needs.  The  permanency 
which  has  characterized  the  office  ol  Presidency  during  these  later  years 
has  also  marked  the  directorate  to  an  almost  equal  extent.  During  the 
fifty  years  ol  its  history  the  Brooklyn  Association  has  had  three  hundred 
and  fifty-seven  directors,  only  sixty-eight  of  whom  appeal  on  its  I  Hrectors' 
rolls  between  iSNv  jnA  uio-.  The  same  remark  might  be  made  of  the 
General  Secretaryship.  <  me  General  Secretary  has  served  it  during  nearly 
the  entire  period.     Mr.  Wilkie  crowned  his  faithful  service  to  the  Associ- 


FIFTY  YEAR.S  IN  BROOKLYN  7  I 

tion  by  inaugurating  its  work  in  the  new  building.  ;ind  therein  received 
the  able  co-operation  of  Mr.  Francis  R.  Wardle,  who  was  compelled  to 
resign  by  reason  of  broken  health  altera  few  months  of  labor  in  1885. 
Mr.  Hdwin  F.  See  came  to  the  Association  as  General  Secretary  in  1886, 
and  has  since  served  as  the  Executive  Officer  of  the  Board  of  Directors, 
representing  them  at  first  in  charge  of  the  work  at  ^02  Fulton  Street, 
and  later  of"  the  Central  Association  and  branches,  and  still  later  of  the 
Metropolitan  organization.*  His  associates  or  first  assistants  in  the 
retaryship  have  been  Mr.  James  L.  Gordon,  to  whom  is  very  largely 
attributable  the  growth  of  the  Association  in  the  early  pari  ol  its  work  in 
the  building  at  502  Fulton  Street;  Mr.  Joseph  B.  Ferguson,  Mr.  Arthur 
Truslow,  Mr.  Robert  A.  McFadden,  Mr.  Arthur  B.  Wood  and  Mr.  Harvey 
I..  Simmons.  By  reason  of  the  growing  demands  upon  the  General  v 
retary's  time  in  connection  with  the  development  of  branch  enterprises. 
the  executive  charge  of  the  work  in  the  building  at  ^02  Fulton  Street  was 
increasingly  left  in  the  hands  ol  these  gentlemen  until  Messrs.  McFadden, 
Wood  and  Simmons  came  to  be  known  as  Secretaries  in  Charge  of  the 
Central  Building.  Next  to  Mr.  See,  Mr.  Simmons  is  the  Senior  Secretary 
of  the  Brooklyn  Association  in  length  of  service,  having  come  to  Brooklyn 
in  tSSc)  as  Secretary  of  the  Eastern  District  Branch,  in  which  capacity  he 
acted  lor  three  years,  alter  which  he  was  united  by  the  Board  of  Directors 
to  devote  himself  more  especially  to  the  growing  financial  demands  of  the 
Association,  in  which  work  he  has  since  continued  with  singular  efficiency, 
and  for  over  two  years  combined  with  these  duties  those  ol  the  Secretary- 
ship of  the  Central  Association  and  newly  organized  Central  Branch. 

*  The  following  minute  was  adopted  .a  .1  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  held  Novembei 
<)tli,  i<)<>-..  and  it  was  resolved  that  a  copy  of  the  same  should  accompany  the  historical  sketch  : 

"The  Board  of  Directors  of  tin-  Brooklyn  Young  Men's  Christian  Association,  while 
approving  the  sketch  ofits  history  prepared  by  the  General  Secretar)  Mi  Edwin  l  See,  feel 
that  it  would  be  incomplete  without  an  additional  statement.  Seventeen  years  ago  Mr.  See, 
relinquishing  a  successful  1  ime  t<>  the  then  comparatively  small  Association,  attracted 

by  tlir  opportunity  it  offered  foi  work  among  young  men.     The  record  which  he  has  givi 
its  growth  in  thi>e  years,  and  the  position  which  it  now  occupies,  are  testimonials  to  the  wisdom, 

tion  and  self-sacrifice  ol   Mi    See.     Brooklyn  owes  him  a  debt  of  gratitude  for  what  lu- 
ll.is  done  for  its  young  men.     We  are  not  unmindful  of  the  many  who  have  faithfully  co-opi 
with  him  when  we  record  thai  it  is  to  his  initiative  and  to  his  wise,  patient  and  unremitting 
that,  unde  portion  of  the  success  of  the  work  must  be  attributed." 


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The  Brooklyn  Association  has  always  had  an  honorable  position  in  the 
annals  of  the  Associations  at  large.  Mr.  Frederick  B.  Schenck  and  Mr. 
Frederic  B.  Pratt,  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  have  been,  for  several  years, 
active  and  leading  members  of  the  International  Committee  of  Young  Men's 
Christian  Associations,  the  former  serving  as  its  Treasurer,  the  latter  as  the 
Chairman  of  its  Educational  Committee,  and  for  a  time  Chairman  of  its 
Naval  Branch  in  Brooklyn,  while  both  have  been  connected  with  many  of 
its  Committees.  Mr.  Daniel  W.  Mc Williams  is  an  advisory  member  of  the 
same  Committee.  Mr.  Edwin  Packard  is  a  Trustee  of  the  State  Associa- 
tion, while  Messrs.  Schenck,  Lyon,  See,  and  Robert  L.  Wensley  of  the 
Bedford  Branch,  are  active  members  of  the  State  Committee,  this  connec- 
tion having  also  been  sustained  by  Messrs.  Henry  Dalley,  Jr.,  O.  W.  Van 
Campen,  Jr.,  and  Alfred  C.  Bedford.  Messrs.  Schenck,  Pratt  and  See  have 
also  been  identified  with  the  Trusteeship  of  the  International  Young  Men's 
Christian  Association  Training  School  at  Springfield,  Massachusetts,  the 
two  latter  serving  successively  as  Chairmen  of  its  Instruction  Committee. 
On  the  other  hand,  the  contribution  of  the  agencies  of  supervision  to  the 
growth  of  the  Brooklyn  Association  has  been  increasingly  important.  The 
inspiration  given  in  early  years,  especially  through  the  International  Con- 
ventions, to  the  development  of  the  Brooklyn  Association  has  already  been 
commented  upon.  These  Conventions  have  continued  to  be  a  source  of 
strength  to  the  Association,  through  the  attendance  of  its  delegates,  but  in 
addition,  the  Association  has  made  large  requisitions  upon  the  members 
and  Secretaries  of  the  International  and  State  Committees  lor  their  counsel 
in  special  emergencies,  and  scarcely  any  of  the  branches  that  have  been 
established,  especially  those  for  the  benefit  of  special  classes  of  men  in 
Brooklyn,  have  been  inaugurated  without  the  presence  on  the  ground  ol 
at  least  one  of  the  Department  Secretaries  of  these  supervisory  agencies. 

A  comparison  of  the  Association  as  it  existed  the  year  before  entering 
upon  its  work  in  the  new  building  at  502  Fulton  Street  and  the  present 
time  may  be  interesting  in  closing.  In  1SS4  the  number  of  buildings 
cupied  by  the  Brooklyn  Association  was  one;  now  the  number  is  twelve. 
Then  there  were  no  branches;  now  the  Association  is  working  at  twelve 
points.      Then  there  was  a  membership  of  about  seventeen  hundred:  now 


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there  is  a  membership  of  fifty-six  hundred.  Then  there  was  no  special 
department  for  boys;  now  there  are  four  boys'  departments,  with  over  six 
hundred  members.  The  number  of  volumes  in  the  library  has  increased 
from  sixty-eight  hundred  to  seventeen  thousand.  Then  there  were  but  two 
Bible  classes;  now  there  are  thirty-seven,  with  an  enrollment  of  nine  hun- 
dred and  twenty-five  men.  Then  there  were  seven  men  in  the  employ- 
ment of  the  Association;  at  the  present  time  there  are  seventy-five.  Then 
there  were  about  fifty  subscribers  to  the  Association,  now  there  are  over 
fifteen  hundred.  Then  there  was  a  total  enrollment  of  seven  hundred  and 
forty-nine  men  in  the  evening  classes;  now  there  are  ten  hundred  and 
forty-four  different  students.  Then  the  average  attendance  at  its  principal 
weekly  religious  meeting  was  three  hundred  and  fifty-nine;  now  it  is 
seven  hundred  and  sixty-eight. 

The  Brooklyn  Association  seems  to  the  prophetic  vision  to  be  on  the 
eve  o!  a  most  remarkable  era  of  development,  during  which  the  present 
branches,  located  at  pivotal  points  in  the  City,  will  be  supplied  with  an  ade- 
quate, modern  equipment  for  the  conduct  of  an  aggressive  and  all-around 
work  among  the  young  men  of  their  communities:  when  the  districts 
more  remote  from  the  heart  of  the  City,  which  have  been  waiting  with 
patience  for  the  establishment  of  Association  enterprises  in  their  midst,  will 
be  supplied  with  buildings  as  the  local  centres  of  other  bands  of  young 
men;  when  with  enlarged  equipment  for  the  older  branches  and  the  es- 
tablishment of  new  blanches,  the  membership  will  be  greatly  enlarged; 
when  the  now  incipient  work  of  adapting  itself  to  various  classes  of  men  in 
the  community  shall  be  more  fully  developed,  and  men  of  different  trades 
and  occupations,  especially  those  engaged  in  manufactories,  shall  have 
their  requirements  for  a  social  exchange,  combined  with  an  opportunity 
for  intellectual  and  religious  improvement,  fully  met:  when  these  buildings 
shall  come  to  fulfill  the  purpose  of  the  founders  of  the  Association  move- 
ment, and  while  veritable  beehives  ol  activity  in  themselves,  shall  be  also 
centres  from  which  shall  radiate  influences  that  shall  reach  out  for  and 
touch  every  young  man  in  the  community;  when  the  ambition  of  the  As- 
sociation to  enter,  not  simply  into  the  life  of  young  men  during  the  winter 
months,  which  make  the  indoor  life  of  the  Association  building  more  con- 


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genial,  but  to  help  him  in  the  enjoyment  and  improvement  of  his  summer 
outings,  shall  be  fully  realized,  and  the  Association  shall  not  only  provide 
all-around  privileges,  but  all-the-year-aorund  privileges;  when  the  Asso- 
ciation shall  commence  its  most  active  and  aggressive  operations  upon 
young  men  while  young  manhood  is  really  forming  in  the  boys  of  twelve 
to  sixteen,  and  with  scientific  accuracy  and  religious  enthusiasm  assist  in 
their  development  while  they  are  forming  habits  and  fixing  opinions;  and 
when  the  entire  membership  shall  be  dominated  by  an  intense  purpose  to 
introduce  the  young  men  of  the  great  community  which  it  serves  into  the 
Kingdom  of  God. 


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BROOKLYN  YOUNG  MFN'S  CHRISTIAN 
ASSOCIATION 

Organized  September  15.    1S53.     Incorporated  by  Act  of  Legislature  May  8,   1S69 
Act  Amended  May  19,  1S76,  June  13,  1881,  and  May  31,  [884 

General  Office:  =.02  Fulton  Street 


CENTRAL  Branch.  502  Fulton  Street 

EASTERN  District  Branch,  131-133  South  Eight  Street 

Bedford  Branch,  414-420  Gates  Avenue 

PROSPECT  Park  Branch,  357-359  Ninth  Street 

TwENTY-SlXTH  Ward  Branch.  142  Pennsylvania  Avenue 

Kong  Island  Railroad  Branch,  45  Borden  Avenue,  Long  Island  City 
9  Prospect  Street,  Jamaica 

BROOKLYN  Rapid  Transit  Branch,  Jamaica  Avenue  and  Gillen  Place 

Carlton  AVENUE  Branch.  405  Carlton  Avenue 

PORT  Hamilton  Army  Branch,  United  States  Reservation,  Fort  Hamilton 

FORT  Tottkn  Army  Branch,  United  States  Reservation,  Fort  Totten 

GrBBNPOINT  Branch.   752  Manhattan  Avenue 

Camp  Waccabuc,  Lake  Waccabuc,  N.  Y. 

NAVAL  Branch  i  International  Committee),  167  .Sands  Street 


OFFICERS  OF  THF.  ASSOCIATION 

President 
EDWARD   1'.    LYON 

Vice-Presidents 
FREDERIC  B.   PRATT        WILLIAM   McCARROLL 

Treasurers 

SAMUEL  ROWLAND         FRANK   II.   PARSONS 

Genera]   Secretaries 

EDWIN   P.  SEE        HARVEY   L.  SIMMONS 

Hoard  01    Tri  STI  i  S 

C.   D.  Wood,  Chairman 

George  Foster  Peabody,  Vice-Chairman 

D.  W.   Mi  Willi  \ms.  Secretary  Treasurei 

John  Gibb  Jambs  H.  Post  Charles  \  Schieren 

Frank  S.  Jones  Charles  M.  Pratt  Edward  P.  Lyon,  ex-officio 


David  A.  Bo«m>y 


fifty  years  ix  brooklyn 
Advisory  Board  of  Directors 

YVii.i.iam  I'.  Gil. i.  Anton  A.  RAVEN 

Frederick  b.  Schenck 


9' 


Edward  m.  Bowman 

HlKI)  S.  COLER 
M.   II.   DORMAN 

Sktii  W.  Fox 

Kinky  B.  II  UGH 

Charles  m.  How  \ki> 
Edward  P.  Lyon 
William  McCarroll 


Board  of  Directs  irs 

Daniel  W.  McWilliams     William  C.  Redkied 

Albro  j.  Newton 

Willis  L.  Ogden 

Edwin  Packard 

Charles  j.  Peabody 

Frederic  B.  Pratt 

Joseph  II.  Raymond 


Samuel  Rowland 
Henry  Sanger  Snow 
Francis  II.  Stuart 
C  ii  \ri.i;s  E.  Teale 
William  E.  Truesdell 
Jesse  C  Woodhull 


O  >MMITTEES  OF  MANACHMHNT 


Central  Branch 

Organised  as  a  Branch  March  .. 
Howard  McWilliams,  Chairman 


III  \\  Alford 
Alfred  C.  Bedford 
Edward  E.  Cady 
Frederick  a.  Cottrell 

i'r  \nk  ii  \k\  i.y  Field 

( rEORGH  I      II  ILSTBD 

Howard  s  ii  iddbn 
J.  C.  Ki.inck 


Cornelius  S.  Loder 
Edward  ii.  m  \ys 

1'k  vskk  M,  Mom  \ t 

Charles  A.  Murphey 
George  ii.  Nbidlinger 

PR  \\K  II.   p  ARSONS 

Fred  h.  Pouch 


George  D.  Pb  \tt 
Clinton  I..  RossiTBB 
Charles  n.  Schenck 
John  S.  Simmons 
Jambs  A.  Smith 
Willi  \m  a.  Strout 
Robert  Van  Iderstine 


Charles  \V.  Dietrich,  Secretary 


l)i.  Witt  BailBV 
John  h.  BBHRB 
Harry  R.  Fergi  son 
ch  irles  i..  fosteb 
Willi  \m  Knight 
Edward  McG  \kyi-:y 


Eastern  District   Branch 


Organised  October  h,  iS8) 
James  W.  Fleming,  Chairman 


Alvah  Mil. i. ik 
Frank  D.  Moi  t  vr 
Henry  F.  Mollenhauef 
I) win  ii.  Moore 
I. oris  Neff 

Fred  i>.   l  iGG,  Secretary 


Kelson  I..  North.  Jr. 
I  \mi:s  ii.  Post 
Albert  s.  Richey 
George  W.  Sen iedle 
Charles  H.  V  vn  Buren 


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Bedford  Branch 


Byron  a.  Brooks 
John  T.  Barry 
Homer  C.  Bristol 
Arthur  L.  Brown 
John  D.  Cutter 
William  E.  Freeman 
W.  Winans  Freeman 
Frederick  R.  Gillespie 


Organized  October  i,  1890 

ALPHONZO  Smith,  Chairman 

Stephen  S.  Nostrand 
George  H.  olnev 

D.  L.  PlERSON 
W.  P.  Sandford 
William  M.  Seymour 


William  G.  Hoople 
John  T.  Horton 
F.  R.  Leach 

Ralph  I.einingkr 
James  Y.  I.ott 
Benjamin  Moore 

George  W.  Northridge 


William  II.  Van  Wart 
Rorert  I..  W'ensi.ky 


Halsev  Hammond,  Secretary 


G.  E.  Apel 
l.rcii'N  S.  Bavi.iss 
Frederick  Bruckbauer 
Walter  C.  Burton 
William  M.  Calder 
Aidlev  Clarke 


Prospect  Park  Branch 

Organized  October  1,  1891 
Setii  W.   Fox,   Chairman 


Wm.  II.  Cresihll 
J.  W.  DOXEV 
J.  B.  Given 
John  J.  Holden 
Richard  S.  McNeill 
Richard  P.  Messiter 
W.  W.  Winne,  Secretary 


W.  I''.  Mii.i.ington 
Clarence  C.  Riggs 
Edward  Sloggatt 

John  THATCHER 

A.  E.  Toi.kamp 
A.  C.  Squier 


Herman  Artus 
J.  C.  Creyelino 
Karl  A.  Gillespie 
II    I,.  Kkkis 


Twenty-Sixth  Ward  Branch 

Organized  November  5,  1893 
EDWARD  R.    Yoi.i.mer.   Chairman 

Ditmas  Jewell  Sidney  E.  Smith 


Charles  b.  Law 
j.  II.  Srtdmore 
Henry  M.  Smith 

William  Kemp  Nugent,  Secretary 


John  M.  STONEY,  Jr. 
Alfred  Tyrrii.l 


C  E.  B  u<ki:r 
L.  J.  Beers 

S.  O.   DlMMICK 

W.  I,.  J  \RVIS 


Long  Island  Railroad  Branch 

Organised  at  Long  Island  City,  May  _•(,,  1894 
Organized  at  Jamaica.  February  1. 


Ik  \nk    E.    II  ml.  Chairman 

F.  P.  Morris 
I    Post 

O.  W     Run 
\i  \so\  Jones,  Secretary 


I.  'i'.  Stew  \rt 
a.  j.  Tatb 

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j.  T.  Gusset 


Brooklyn  Rapid  Transit  Branch 

Organized  July  7,  1003 

John  Keating,  Chairman 

I).  S.  King  F.  a.  Ovbrfield 

J.  M.  Dudley,  Secretary 


Fort  Hamilton  Army  Branch 

Organized  February  1,  1 


W.  J.  Brown 
Herbert  P.  Campbell 

John  J.  R.  Clark 

Edwin  s.  [ves 
Georgh  W.  Poi  -I. 


WILLIAM   A.   Main,   Chairman 

Major  J.  V.  l.w  dbrdale    Harrv  I,.  Spence 
CHARLES  l  .  MacKav  HARROLD  M.  STRATTON 

Haukv  ii.  Richardson      Jacques  Van  Brunt 
h.  B.  Saunders  J.  R.  Van  Brunt 

A.  S.  G  \i  inky.  Secretan 


I).  T.  Crispin 

I).  A.  Harrison 

I).  R.   I.i AVIS 

CH  \RI.i  CS  Prichard 


Fort  Totten  Army  Branch 

Organized  Marco  10, 


WILLIAM  T.  JAMBS,   Chairman 


William  j.  Roberts 

Clinton  T.  Rob 

Chari.es  K.  Sayer 

Pr  \\k  W.  S11  kPTEB 


c.  B.  Storey 
K.  Platte  Stratton 
George  h.  Sweeney 
William  \\"  vgneb 


Carle  D.  Boynton,  Secretary 


C.   A.    DoRSKV 
II    C.   DUGAS 
!•.  V.  C     EATO 

P.  H.  Gilbert 
a.  11.  Hill 
\i.i.i  n  Morton 


Carlton  Avenue   Branch 

Organized  May  i-^.  1 
W.  h.  Bulkley,  Chairman 


p.  a   Myers 

\V.  J.  Simpson 
C.  P.  B.  Smith 
J  \mi.s  I,    Smith 
Willi  wi  I..  T  WI.oK 


J.  Thomas  HUNTEB 
W.  E.  Tyleb 
r.  B.  Waddeli. 
William  Washington 
Hyl \nd  E.  Wilson 


Charles  II.   Bullock,  Secretary 


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Greenpoint  Branch 

Organized  as  an  Association  1885,  as  a  Branch  April  1,  1903 
J.  W.  Cummings,  Chairman 


John  Bremer 
\y.  f.  corwith 
F.  J.  Denning 
ii.  x.  doughtery 
John  Graham 


J.   \V.   M.   HlMMELMANN 

j.  r.  maguire 
Charles  Niedner 
J.  A.  Owens 

a.  1..  Perry 

Arthur  TRUSLOW,   Secretary 


S.  M.  Randall 

James  p:.  Smith 
S.  (;.  Trexler 
E.  A.  Walker 


Naval  Branch 

Organized  March  1,  1895.  under  the  Naval  Young  Men's  Christian  Association 

Committee  ok  Management 

,  Chairman 

I).   W.  McWlLLlAMS,  Treasurer 


Thomas  E.  Stii.i.ma.n 
Dr.  John  I'.  Minn 


Charles  a.  Sherman         Alfred  E.  Marling 
George  A.  Crocker.  Jr.     William  B.  Millar 
Edward  I'.  Lyon 
W.  I..  Tisdale,  Secretary 


Joseph  G.  Cochran 
C.  W.  Dietrich 
George  C.  Hendricks 

1. 01  is  NEFF 


Camp  Waccabuc 

Organized  August  189^ 

Committee  ok  Management 
Cornelius  S.  Loder,  Chairman 


Fred  D.  Fagg 

Win  \ns  w.  Freeman 

John  T.  HORTOM 

Halsey  Hammond 
Frederick  Bruckbauer 


William  Stewart 
W.  W.  Winni 
Edward  p.  I. von 
Edwin  F.  Sep. 


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EXPENSES 

lACCOUNT.  Board.  Central.         n^c"         Bedford.  PpJ^£C*      rfth  Ward.    Lon|.I^and 


Finance 

Committees    .    .    .     -$9,oS8  78  112,038  96  $2,693  24    fc.77'  7s     fe.102  86  $1,874  89  $2,629  67 

Rooms  an<!  Building 

Committees 11.32s  85     2.331  81      2,212  95       2,661  S2     1.756  67     1,139  46 

Physical  Department 

Committees 4.841   71      1,362  08       1,270  43        1.230  74        76S  44 

Educational 

Committees 3.867  09        24S  50         671  81  521  84        475  SS 

Religions  Work 

Committees 3.386  01  33  34  293  97  206  06         130  39 

Library  and  Reading 

Room  Committees         2,181  00  345  43         114  41  123  34  125   16  65  05 

Entertainment 

Committees '.334  42         I29  34  '9  3s  '  1 '   95         276  50        4' 

Hoys'  Department 

Committees 2,411   77     ...    .  42  94 5  ui 


Total  Expenses  for 

the  year  1902-O3      -'$11,269  7-s  $39-554  24  $6,912  72  $10,406  60     59,980  43  $5  35a  Ba    - 

Dr.  Balance  1901    02 

brought  forward  .        10,478  03       3. 076  64      ....  2,374    19        4.1  08  38      2,038  40 


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[903 521.7-17  si  ■>\2,h:->n  ss  $6,912  72  512.7s,,  79  $13,988  81   57.301   22  5i  I 


1  The  Items  "f  the  Finance  Committees  art-  salaries  (principally  of  Si  State  and  International 

t  ommittees,  supplies,  postage,  prospectuses  and  advertising,  and  petty  cash;  <>i  the  Rooms  and  Building  Comn 
salaries  of  janitors,  litflu,  fuel,  supplies,  repairs  ami   Improvements;  of  the   Physical  Department  Comn 
salaries  ol  physical  directors  and  supplies  ;  of  the  Educational  Department  Committees,  salaries  of  instructoi 
supplies;  of  the  Religious  Work  Committees,  supplies,  advertising,  speakers  and  Singers,  Bible  Study  Department  : 

,,f  the  Library  and  Reading  Room  Committees,  literature  and  supplies;  of  the  Kntertainracnt  Commits 

liniments  and  receptions  :  of  the  Hoys'  Department  Committees,  literature  and  sup],! 

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For  the  Fiscai    Year,  October   i.    1902,  to  September   jo,    1903 

EXPENS 


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A N1  f&Mta.  Army-  ,v-         Avenue       Greenpoult-  WaccaSuc     Expenses. 


Finance 

Committees       .    .       ^977  9S        £807  37       5924  57      $930  ss     m.75"  *9    f2.954  07  547.545  64 

Rooms  and  Building 

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Physical  Department 

Committees    ...  7  82      557  53  10,058  75 

Educational 

Committees    ...  n>  50      lo  oo 5.813  62 

Religious  Work 

Committees 8  85  2;,  80  16  15  4.116  37 

Library  and   Reading 

Room  Committees  1  50  96  86  .         3,254  95 

Entertainment 

Committees    ...  ;,6  16 203  19      .  1,513  84 

Boys'  Department 

Committees 2459  71 


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Dr.  Balance  1901   '02 

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)  $1,032   16     •  17''  03   $1,833  51     $3«395   r5   $3  :,J  5^  $121,741  86 


104  FIFTY  YEARS  IN  BROOKLYN 


Summary  of  Financial  Statements — Board  ok  Directors  and  Branches 

receipts 


Account.  Board. 


District.        "«"»'«•  park.         i0U1  "alu-  RR. 


Membership  Fees $21,917  So  £1,845  94    #4-575  3°    >4-527  °2    $1,907   15   #1,202  50 

Rentals      8,192  50 460  00    .    .    .    . 

Endowment  Fund     .    #8,071  74      

Hoard  of  Directors 5,000  00     1,000  00       1,350  00       i.Soo  00      2.450  00    . 

Donations '9,206  00        5.746  94     4,076  00      5,929  55     26,753  10      2,614  o°    :,J,921  9° 

Miscellaneous 1. 70S  75 's;,j  21 


Total  Receipts  for  the 

year #17,277  74    $42,565  99  #6,921  94  $11,854  85  513,080  12    #7,43"    >5     3-956  61 

Cr.  Balance  I9oi-'o2 

brought  forward 28 754  52 


Total  Receipts  to 

September 30,  1902  #17.277  74    542,565  99  £6,922  22  #11.854  85  $13,080  12    $7,431   15  $4,711   13 

Total  Expenses  as  per 

contra 21.747  ,s'       42.630  88     6,912  72     12.780  79     13,988  81       7.391    22      4.390  03 


Total  Dr.  or  Cr.  Bal-  |I)T.  ,„.                |Cr  |I)r                 |I)r                ,Cr 

ance.  Sept.  30,  1903  #4,47°  "7  I  s9          #9  5°  #925  94                              $39  93      $321    l0 

( Outstanding  subscrip- 
tions and  other  assets  1.500  00  745  00  ....  1,387  30  1,010  00         101  00 


Net  Dr.  or  Cr.  Balance  |1)r  |(Jr  [Cr  |Cr 

September  30,  1903  #2,97007  n         #9  50      #461  36       #101  31       £140  93      £321   10 


1  Exclusive  of  $13,058  as  against  appropriations  to  Bras  S      contra. 

-  Exclusive  of  $11.7  xi  received  and  paid  on  account  of  mortgi 

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For  the  Fiscai    Year,  October  i.   1902,  to  September   jo,    1903 

receipts 


,        „„.  „  ltr""V>"  ■    Ft.  Hamilton  Ft.  Totten       Carlton       ...     ,     .   ,        ramp  Total 

,montha  Army.  Army.         Avenue.  ■  Waccabuc      Receipts 


Membership  Fees  .           5261  50          >ii  00         $27  7"      $399  00     $1,053  °°      ■    ■    •    •  $37.727  91 

Rentals 221   00       8,873   5° 

Endowment  Fund 8,071  74 

Board  of  Directors 1.5S  00 12,05s  ch> 

Donations 845000            774  92        1,092  oS         308  60        1.922  00       .    .  4". 795  09 

Miscellaneous      .    .    .           44]    25       496  03       2,565   2S  6,043  52 


Total  Receipts  for  the 

year $1,152  75    1.243  9s  $I."9  78  $1,424  63   $2,975  no  $2,565  28  $113,569  76 

Cr.  Balance  19  >] 

as  per  last  report (92   50  54  (.9       ....  [,301   39 


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September   .  $1,153  75     $1,243  9a    $1,119  7s  $I>9'7   '3     $3.02909    #2,565  28 $114,871   15 

Total  Expenses  as  pei 

contra 1,03246       1,24989      1,17603     1,83351       3,395  15      3,21256   121.711  86 


Total  Dr.  or  Cr.  Bal-  |I)r  |I)r  [Dr  |I)r 

ance,  Sept.  30,  1903  5120  29           $5  97  556  25  83  62        $366  06       5647  2s  $6,870  71 

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FIFTY  YEARS  IN  BROOKLYN 


JUBILEE  CELEBRATION 

of  the  Brooklyn  Young  Men's  Christian  Association 


IN   COMMEMORATION    OF  ITS 

FIFTIETH  ANNIVERSARY 


Saturday,  Sunday  and  Monday.  November  21.  22  and  2^ 
Nineteen  Hundred  and  Three 


FUNCTIONS 


Saturday  Evening,  November  21 

Members'  Banque  i 

Gymnasium  Central  Br. inch. —  Addresses  by 

Hon.    Henry  B.  F.   Macfarland,   President  of 

Board  of  Commissioners  of  District  of  Colum- 
bia; President  George  E.  Reed.  D.D.,of  Dick- 
inson College;  Mr. Walter  C.  Don- las.  nt  Phila- 
delphia; and  Messrs.  Daniel  W.  McWilliams 
and  Charles  E.  Teale,  of  Brooklyn.  Mr.  Ed- 
ward P.  Lyon,  Provident  of  the  Association, 
presiding. 

Sunday  Evening,  November  22 
jubilee  Celebration  iok  Min  \nh  Women 
Academy  of  Music,  <S  o'clock. —  Hon.  Seth 
Low,  Mayor  of  the  City,  presiding.  Addresses 
by  R.  Pulton  Cutting,  Esq.,  Rev.  Theodore  L. 
Cuyler,  D.D.,  President  M.  W.  Stryker,  \).\\. 
of  Hamilton  College,  and  Bishop  Edward  G. 
Andrews,  D.D.  Music  by  the  full  choir  and 
orchestra  of  the  Baptist  Temple,  under  the  di- 
rection of  Prof.  Edward  M.  Bowman. 

OvhKI  low    Mi  1  1 ING 

Church  0/  Pilgrims,  8  o'clock. —  Rev.  II.  P. 
Dewey,  D.D  .  presiding.  Addresses  by  Rev. 
|osiali  Strong,  D.D:  President  George  E. 
Reed.  D.  D.,  of  Dickinson  College;  and  Mr. 
Walter  C.  Douglas,  of  Philadelphia.  Music 
by  the  Church  Choir. 

Monday  Evening.  November  2? 

DlSNhK   loK   <  )l  111  IKs 

Union  League  Club,  <<  o'clock. —  Dinner  foi 
Boards  oi  Trustees  and  Directors  and  <  lommit- 
tees  of  Management.  Addresses  by  Ex-Gov- 
ernoi  0.  Vincenl  Coffin,  of  Connecticut;  Hon, 
Henry  B.  1-  Macfarland,  ol  Washington,  D  < !, ; 
Rev.  I  ym.m  Abbott,  D.  D. ;  Hon.  St.  (  laii 
M.  Kelwa)  ,  and  D,  Willis  |ames,  Esq.,  of  New 
York  Mr.  Frederic  B.  Pratt,  First  Vice  Presi- 
dent oi  the  Association,  presiding. 


Sunday  After  noon.  November  22 
BranchMef.  unosisVakioisSi  1  noNsoFTiih  City 

Under  Auspices  of  Central  Branch 
Oiphctiiii  Theatre,  ):  jo  o'clock. — Meeting  for 
men.     Address  by  President  George  E.  Reed. 

D.  D.,  of  Dickinson  College.     Special  music. 

Under  Auspices  of  Eastern  District  Branch 
SI.  John's  M.F..  Church.  4  o'clock. — Meeting 
for  men  and  women.      Address  by   President 
M.  W.  Stryker,  D.  D.,  of  Hamilton  Coll 
Music  by  Eastern  District  Branch  Orchestra 

Under  Auspices  of  Bedford  Branch 

Central  Presbyterian  Church,  4  o'clock. — 
Meeting  for  men  and  women.  Addresses  b) 
Rev.  S.  Parkes  Cadman,  D.D..  Pastor  Central 
Congregational  Church,  and  Mr.  Walter  C. 
Douglas,  of  Philadelphia.  Music  by  Park  Sis- 
ters and  lotus  Glee  Club. 

Under  Auspices  oi  Prospect  Park  Branch 
Branch  Gymnasium,  4  o'clock. — Meeting  for 
men  and  women.  Addresses  by  Rev.  josiah 
Strong.  I).  I).,  and  Rev.  S.  GifTbrd  Nelson. 
Hon.  David  A.  Boody,  presiding.  Music  by 
First  Reformed  Church  Choir. 

Under  Auspices  of  20th  Ward  Branch 

Congress  Hall,  4  o'clock. —  Meeting  for  men. 

Address  bj  William  Blaikie,  Esq.,  on  "  How 

to  Get  Strong."     Music  by  Concordia  Singing 

v  and  Phylliric  Orchestra 

Under  Auspices  of  Greenpoint  Branch 
Tabernacle  M.  E.  Church,  4  o'clock. —  Meet- 
ing for  men  and  women.     Addresses  by  Mr. 

E.  W.  Booth,  of  New  York,  and  Mr.  F.  W 
Iv. us. ill,  Industrial  Secretary  New  York  State 

imittee.  Mr.  William  McCarroll,  President 
Manufacturers'  Association,  presiding.  Music 
by  the  T.ibern.i,  le  m  1    1  !hurch  Choir. 

Undei  Auspices  ol  ('.niton  Avenue  Branch 
Bridge  Street  A   Ml    Church,  4  o'clock. — 

Meeting  for  men  and  women.      Address  b) 
Rev   li    P   Dewey,  D.  D  .  Pastoi  Church  ol 
Pilgrims.      Music    by   Budge  Street   »  hurch 
and  Bi.iik  h  t  >rchestra 


APPENDIX 


I  14  FIFTY  YEARS  IX  BROOKLYN 

Chronology  of  the  Association,   [853-1903 

1.S53,  June  9,  First  meeting  for  considering  organization. 

lX53.  June  30,  Constitution  adopted. 

1853,  Sept.  15,  Officers  elected. 

1853,  Sept.  19.  First  meeting  of  Hoard  of  Managers. 

1853,  Oct.  25,  First  public  meeting  held. 
1S53,  Dec.  10,  Incorporation  of  Association. 

1S53,  Dec.  20,    Opening  of  first  rooms,  Washington  Building. 

1856,  May  1,       Library  circulation  commenced. 

1856,  June  23,    Identified  with  Confederation  of  Young  Men's  Christian  Associations. 

1S59.  April  28,   Opening  of  rooms  in  Brooklyn  Institute  Building. 

1862,  Army  and  Navy  Committee  appointed. 

1865.  Sept.  7.     Opening  of  rooms  southeast  cor.  of  Fulton  Street  and  Gallatin  Place. 

1866.  Beginning  of  many  phases  of  modern  Association  work. 
1837,  Jan.   1,        First  General  Secretary  commenced  work. 

1869,  May  8,  First  Special  Act  of  Incorporation. 

1S70,  Nov.  29,  First  meeting  of  Board  of  Trustees. 

1872,  Sept.  1,  Opening  of  rooms  southwest  corner  Fulton  Street  and  Gallatin  Place. 

[878,  Six  hundred  sustaining  members  at  >io  each  secured. 

188  >.  Sept  First  gymnasium  opened  under  instructor. 

1881,  Mch.  Offer  of  £20, 000  from  Frederick  Marquand. 

1883,  Mch.  ?i.  Offer  of  building  from  legatees  of  Marquand  Estate. 

1884,  May  2,  Ground  broken  for  building  502  Fulton  Street. 

1884,  Oct.  1 !,     Laying  of  corner  stone  building  502  Fulton  Street. 

1854,  Dec.  27,    Endowment  Fund  subscribed. 

1855,  May  1,      Opening  temporary  rooms,  517  Fulton  Street. 

1885.  Sept.  29,  Opening  reception  building,  502  Fulton  Street. 
18S9,  Oct.  21,  Fastern  District  Branch  building  opened. 
1889,  Century  Guarantee  Committee  organized. 
189),  Oct.  1,  Bedford  Branch  organized. 

1891,  Oct.   1,  Prospect  Park  Branch  organized. 

1893,  Nov.  5,  Twenty-sixth  Ward  Branch  organized. 

1894,  May  26,  Long  Island  Railroad  Branch  organized. 
1894,  June  Summer  headquarters  opened. 

1896,  Feb.  11,    Revised  Constitution  effecting  metropolitan  organization. 

1896,  Mch.  9,     Central  Branch  organize  1. 

1899,  Mch.  14,  B.  II.  Howell  gift  of  $20,000  for  Eastern  District  Branch  Bldg.  Fund. 

1899,  Gymnasium  Prospect  Park  Branch  erected. 

i9<K).  Feb.  1.      Port  Hamilton  Branch  organized. 

19(H),  April  1,     Single  Treasury  organized. 

1901,  Feb.  1.      Frank  S.  Jones'  gift  of  f2o,(KK>  to  Bedford  Branch  Building  Fond. 

1902,  Mch.  10.  Fort  Totten  Army  Branch  organized. 
1912.  Mch.  25,  Jubilee  Building  Fund  inaugurated. 

iiji>2,  April  25,  Gift  of  George  foster  Peabody  for  Colored  Men's  Branch. 

1912,  May   15.     Colored  Men's  Branch  organized 
19  >2,  June,         Camp  Waccabuc  adopted. 

1903,  til.  6,     John  l>.  Rockefeller  gift  of  $100,000  for  Jubilee  Fund. 

1903,   Feb.    1,        Long  Island  Railroad  Branch  commences  work  at  Jamaica. 

[903,  \pril  1.    Greenpoint  Association  adopted  u  Branch. 

1903,  Jul)  7,      Brooklyn  Rapid  Transit  Railroad  Men's  Branch  organized. 


FIFTY  YEARS  IN   BROOKLYN 


I  I 


Directors  Brooklvn  Youn^  Men's  Christian  Association 


[853-1903 


Abbott,  Lyman 
Abbott,  Benj.  V. 

Adams,  John  1'. 
Alford,  Alonzo 
Anderson,  J.  P.,  Jr. 
Anderson,  Win.  R. 
Andrews,  B.  G. 
Atkins,  Thomas  B. 
A\  res,  Carlton 
Backus,  William 
Baker,  Charles  I » 
Bancker,  Win.  I). 
Bancroft.  I.    W. 
Barker,  Ezra  I). 
Barnes.  Henry  B. 
Bassett,  Charles  l 
Bassett,  F.  B. 
Bassett,  Marcus  I 

Beach     Moses  S. 
Beakes,  A.  S. 
Beebe,  Leonard 
Beers,  R.  I-:. 
Bell,  George  \. 
Berri,  K.   I). 
Billings,  Elmer  M. 
Birdsall,  Daniel 
Blake,  Spencer  C. 
Bleecker,  Chas.  W. 
I'.!iss.  John 
Blood.  George  A. 
Bodine,  A.  Stanton 
Bonnell,  Charles  L 
Bo  »d)  .  David  \ 
Booth,  Robt,  C. 
Bowers,  George  W. 
Bowman,  Edw.  M. 
Boynton,  John  1 1 
Brandeger,  I lenry  J. 
Brewster,  S.  D. 
Bridgman,  Malcolm 
BriggS,  L.  J..  Jr. 
Brumley,  Janus  I. 
Bryant.  Robert   A 
Buddington,  Win.  I. 


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Bussing,  Robert  S. 
Butler,  S.  I>. 
Canfield,  Eli  II. 
Carlisle,  James  C. 
Carly,  Jesse 
Carter.  Samuel 
Carr,  John  S. 
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Chamberlin,  H.  B. 
Cbapin,  Henry 
Chartres,  William 
Clark,  George  F. 
Cochran,  David  H. 
Coffin,  <  >.  Vincent 
Colby,  Charles  I.. 
Coler,  Bird  S. 
Conant,  Thomas  1  > 
Conkling,  J   T. 
Coomes,  o.  B. 
Copeland,  C.  Bdw, 
Copeland,  George 
Cowing,  James  R. 

Cragin,  Charles  M. 
Crolius,  Peter  B. 
Cutting.  R.  Fulton 
Dalley,  Henry,  Jr. 
Darling,  James 
Davis.  Charles  K. 
Da\  is,  John  F. 

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Day,  George  H. 

Dayton,  John  R. 
Dayton,  W.  B. 
De  Forrest,  G.  F. 

De  Craw.  J.  L. 
Deshon.  H.  S. 
Dike,  Oscar  D. 
Dikema  1.  Geo.  W. 
Dillingham,  C.  H. 
Dorman,  M.  H. 


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Giddings,  W.  J. 

'54 

'55 

Gill,  William  1'. 

'57 

'58 

C.oater.   E.  A. 

■89- 

Goodnow,   \.  P. 

'53- 

'54 

Grady,  John  D.  W. 

'87- 

>> 

•64- 

66 

( Greene,  Janus  A 

'59- 

•6i 

" 

'54- 

'55 

(  ireene,  J  .  Warren 

'54- 

'55 

1  [agar,  Henrv  A. 

'53- 

'54 

1  [agar,  William,  Jr. 

'5.V 

'54 

.. 

•76- 

'80 

Haigh,  Henry  B. 

'S,- 

'•'5 

Hanford,  John  E. 

'57- 

'57- 

•61 

'59- 

'6  j 

•60- 

'hi 

•58- 

'59 

'53- 

'59 

•68- 

'69 

•69- 

'79 

77 

'Si 

'75- 

•78 

'53- 

'54 

•69- 

•76 

■68- 

'69 

'7- 

'54 

'78 

'"7- 

'68 

•67- 

'68 

'75- 

'7s 

'78- 

•,S9 

'94- 

•96 

'1  Kl- 

'69, 

'78 

•S2- 

'95 

'83 

'53- 

'55 

'57- 

'58 

'54- 

'55 

'63- 

'94 

'57- 

•hi 

'S2- 

'*4 

'8a- 

'83 

'53- 

'54 

'54- 

'58 

•62- 

•69 

'56- 

'57 

•61- 

'"7 

'86- 

■89 

•63- 

00 

'53- 

'54 

•56- 

'57 

'00- 

'"3 

'53- 

'55 

i  i6 


FIFTY  YEARS  IN  BROOKLYN 


Harriot.  Edward  I.. 
Harriot,  J.  V. 
Hart,  Levi  Wells 
Hastings,  Win.  M. 

Hatch.  Arthur  M. 
Hatch,  W.  T. 
Hay,  Charles  M. 
Hawley,  Edgar  W. 
Hayes,  C.  F. 
Hegeman,  Peter  R. 
Henry,  George  W. 
Herbert,  W.  F. 
Higgins,  Joseph 
Hoagland.  G.  A. 
Holmes,  F.  II . 
Holmes,  Louis  H. 
Hosford,  J.  Spencer 
Hosford,   Henry 
Howard,  Charles  M. 
Howlet,  C.  K. 
Hoyt,  Wayland 
Hugg,  George 
Hull,  Charles  A. 
Hunt,  Albert  S. 
Hutchinson,  S.   L. 
Ingersoll,  Edw.  P. 
Ingliss,  David 
Ingraham,  W.  M. 
Ives,  James  M. 
James,  I).  Willis 
J  ay  ne,  George  A. 
Johnson,  Rud'h  H. 
Jones,  Henry  A. 
Kalbfleisch,  Ed.  L. 
Kimball.  Joseph 
Keep,  George  C. 
Keon,  Henry  B. 
Kyle,  John  F. 
Kyle,  John  J. 
Lane,  Frederick  A. 
Law.  George  E. 
Law.  Henry  W. 
Law  son.  Albert  G. 
Lightbod)  .  Jas    1 1 
Lloyd,  Henry  II. 
I.osi  y,  William  A. 
Low  II.  E.  A. 
Low .  A.   Augustus 
Luther.  Charles  S. 
Lyon,  Edward  P. 


'78- 

•So 

'53- 

'54 

'57- 

'59 

•66- 

•69 

'74- 

'75 

'ol- 

'03 

■8i- 

'83 

•89- 

'92 

'78- 

'95 

'54- 

'57 

'57- 

'59 

'53- 

'54 

'61- 

•63 

•62- 

•63 

'87- 

•89 

•63- 

65 

'59- 

•62 

'60- 

•65 

•62- 

'63 

'95- 

'03 

'56- 

'57 

•69- 

'73 

•62- 

•63 

•91- 

'98 

'70- 

'77 

•90- 

'9' 

'7'- 

'So 

'72- 

'7/ 

•8o 

'57- 

•62 

'53- 

'54 

'".V 

'65 

'67- 

•69 

•62- 

'66 

'7"- 

'7i 

•69- 

'73 

'78- 

'79 

'55 

•62- 

•63 

•62 

'54- 

'55 

'94 

'59- 

•60 

'74- 

'Si 

•65- 

'56 

'(,1 

•65- 

'67 

'82- 

■89 

'Sj- 

•85 

•62- 

''-7 

'94 

Lyon,  Edward  P. 

Manchester,  L.  W. 
Mapes,  A.  W. 
Marshall,  Win.  A. 
Marten,  William  A. 
Martin.  Daniel 
Martin,  William  M. 
Marvin,  Charles  A. 
Marvin,  Charles  R. 
Marvin,  Tasker  H. 
Mason,  Lewis  I). 
Matthews,  G.  I). 
Max  field,  Chas.  W. 
Maynard,  John  Q. 
McCarroll,  William 
McDonald,  Willis 
McC.ee,  James 
McWilliams,  D.  W. 

Mersereau,  ( '.eo.  S. 
Messenger,  Thos.  H. 
Miles,  Edward  C. 
Miller,  William  I). 
Moore,  David,  Jr. 
Morau,  Francis 
Morand,  Geo.  A. 
Morgan,  Jas.  L.,  Jr. 
Morris,   Lewis 
Morrison,  J. 
Mumford,  Charles 
Myers,  F.  Rawdon 
Myers,  Janus 
Myers,  J.  K. 
Xearing,  Win.    W. 
Nexsen,  John  A. 

Newton,  Albro  J. 
Nichols,  W.  II. 
Noyes,  ( reorge  R. 

Odell,  Samuel  I'.  F. 
( >gden,  F.  I). 

(  '-den.  Willis  L. 
Olipbant,  James  1 [. 
Oliver.  C     II. 
Oliver,  Richard 
<  )n .  Alexander  E. 
p. nk. ud,  Edwin 
Page,  <  reorge  S. 
Parsons,  1     \ 
Parsons,  Charles  1 1 


'  98-03 
62-'68 

'62-'64 
'6;-'6S 
'56-'57 
'7°-'78 
'63-'73 
'65  '66 
•68- '69 
•72-76 
'76'79 
'67^9 
'66-'67 
•66--£S 

'97-'°3 
'78-' 79 
'53-'58 

'72'79 
'82  '03 

'7S-'Si 
•62-'67 

'53-'54 

'54- '55 
'69- '75 
'69-'7o 
'62-'68 
'67-'6S 
'68-'69 

"53-'54 

'67- '70 

56 

'68- '69 
•63-'65 
'54-  '55 
'53-'55 
6i-'62 
80- '03 
'84- '86 
5.V'54 
'58-'59 
'53-'58 
63- '64 
"7-'"5 
95 -'"5 
'62- '63 
5.C-5I 
7L'77 

'66V67 

Sl-'SS 


Parsons,  Frank  II. 
Parsons,  Samuel  M. 
Paterson,  Robt.  W. 
Patterson,  Edward 
Pattison,  Arthur  I',. 
Payson,  George  P. 
Peabody,  Charles  J. 
Peabody,  (ieorge  F. 
Pearce,  John  C. 
Perrin,  Grenville 
Perry,  J.  I. 
Perry.  W.  H. 
Pomeroy,  Julius  R. 
Powell,  Willoughbv 
Powelson,  N.  C. 
Pratt,  Charles  M. 
Pratt.  Frederic  B. 
Pray,  Joseph  M. 
Price.  William  M. 
Puleston,  J.  H. 
Pullen,  E.  H. 
Raven,  Anton  A. 

Raymond,  Jos.  H. 

Read,  J.  E. 
Redfield,  Win.  C. 
Reynolds,  Geo.  G. 
Richards.  Joseph  H. 
Richardson,  E.  T. 
Richardson,  Wm. 
Ridgway,  James 
Righter,  Charles  A 
Righter,  J.  II. 
Ritchie.  Edward  C. 
Roberts,  Oliver  E. 
Robinson.  John  C. 
Ropes,  Albert  (',. 
Roundey,  Benj.  B, 
Rowudy,  George  T. 
Rowland,  Samuel 
Rusiimore,   C. 
Rushmore,  Merwin 
Rutter,  Clement  M. 
Schaedle,  ( '.eo.  W. 
Schenck,  Fred'k  It. 

Schenck,  Noah  II. 
Schieren,  Charles  \ 
Seney.  ( reorge  I. 
Sei  1  ell,  Lemuel  W. 


90-  9Q 

'53-'55 
•6S-'69 
'6o-'6i 
'oo-'o3 

'59  '62 

'03 
•82- '95 

'7'-'79 
•76 

'53-'54 
'59- '60 
'5S-'6i 
•8i-'85 
'67-'69 
•S4-\S9 
•92-  '03 
'53-'55 
53-'55 
•69- '70 
'Si 

•68-'69 
•76-  \x4 
'74-'78 
■92-03 
'54-'55 
'96-'u3 
•69-77 
'59-'6i 
'8o-'8i 
,72-,76 
'54-'55 
'62-'66 
'S,)--S6 
•59-  '6o 
'  7  1  - '  75 
•6.V64 
•91-92 

'6: 1- '62 

'53-'54 
'9i-'°3 

'62-'64 
'(,S-'77 
•67-*68 
•96 

'M 

'83-'97 

'69  ':i 
'87 

'74  '7" 

I 


FIFTY  YEARS  IN   BROOKLYN 


1  1 


Shotwell,  Theodore 

•5S- 

59 

Taylor,  George 

'54-'55 

Slack,  Jami 

"57- 

60 

Taylor,  J.   H. 

\SS--6o 

Sloeuin.  Robert  S. 

'53- 

57 

Teale,  Charles  E. 

•87-'o3 

Smith,  Andrew    \ 

'53- 

57 

Tebbetts,  Noah 

\S2-S9 

Smith.  Frederick 

"53- 

57 

Ten  Eyck,  Peter  J. 

'5.V'57 

Smith.  Charles  11. 

'58- 

59 

Thompson,  Geo.  S. 

'62-'65 

Smith,  II.  B. 

'53- 

59 

Thorn.  A.   B. 

'58-'59 

Smith,  J.  Milton 

53- 

'54 

.. 

'6.V'67 

Smith.  Win.  Peck 

'79- 

'86 

.. 

'77-'78 

Sniffen.  Frank  I.. 

\S6- 

96 

Thome,  Bdward  II. 

'55-' 54 

Snow,  Hy.  Sanger 

'97- 

03 

.. 

'57  '58 

Spaulding,  B.  J. 

'58 

'59 

Thome,  Robert  T. 

'53-'54 

Spelman,  T.  M. 

'65- 

•66 

•• 

'58-'6o 

Speltnan,  Wm.  C. 

•69 

'?> 

•66- '6; 

mer,  B.  I!.,  Jr. 

'67- 

'6S 

Tilney,  Thomas  J. 

'95 

Stevens,  Abel 

'74 

Torrance,  Henry 

'7"- '75 

Stone.  Sumner  R. 

'57- 

'59 

Trask,  Alanson 

"69- '96 

Stoothoff,  J.  Suydam'65- 

•67 

Tredick,  Charles 

'66-'6S 

Stopford,  Samuel  J. 

'53- 

'54 

Trowbridge,  T.  C. 

'5.V.S4 

Storrs,  James  II. 

'54- 

'55 

Truesdell,  Win.   E. 

Storrs.  Rich,  S.  Jr., 

•69- 

'75 

Tuthill.  John  B. 

'53-'54 

Street.  W.  C. 

66- 

'67 

Vail,  John  J. 

•S2--94 

Stuart,  Francis  II. 

'82- 

'No 

Van  C. unpen.  (  >.  W. 

.. 

'03 

Jr. 

Studley,  William  S. 

•69- 

'7" 

Van  Buren,  A.  I.. 

'54-'57 

Sutton,  David  A. 

•60 

Van  Cott.  Alex.  II. 

•S7--96 

Taft,  Bnos  N" 

'75 

Van  Saun,  Peter 

'54-'55 

Talmage,  '1'.  DeWitt 

'78 

Van  Wagoner,  C.  S. 

Tarhell.  Charles  W. 

•66- 

Vol!  mer,  Edward  R 

'95'96 

Taylor.  Andrew    I.. 

'77 

Wads  worth,  Daniel 

Taylor.  DeWitt  C. 

•69- 

'7" 

Wadsworth,  W.  I',. 

'7I'77 

Wallace.  James  1'. 
Warner.  I'.  F. 
Washbourne,  Frank 
Wicks,  Alfred 
Wheeler,  Henry  I.'. 
Wheeler.  R.  (). 
Wheeler.Stephen  H. 
White,  Geo.  C,  Jr. 

White,  Henry 
Whiting,  Robert  M. 
Wickes,  William  W. 
Wilbur.  Cornelius 

Wilkie.  Thomas  J. 
Williams.  J.   E. 
Wilson.  Henry  C. 
Wood.  Cornelius  I  >. 

Woodbridge,  Joseph 
Woodhull.  Jesse  C. 
Wright,  J.  T. 

Wyant.  Leonard  N. 
Wyckoff,  W.  S. 

Vellowlee.  Robt.  A. 

Young,  George  B. 
Young,  John  T. 

Young,  Stephen  B. 
Young,    Richard 
Zundel,  Robert  W. 


'^-'77 
'54-55 
'8i-'8a 
•65- '66 
•76  -'Si 
'53-'54 
'54-'55 
'6;-'6S 

'7«-'79 
'6o-'67 

'54'55 

'6S-'77 

'56-'58 

'6.v'67 

•So-\S4 

'57- '59 
•6.S--69 

'69- '70 
•6o-'6i 
'94  -'05 
'53'-54 

'59-6i 
'77-'78 

'55- '54 
'S3-' 55 

'54-  '55 

'95-'96 


B  II  1H   s.     .\.     S. 

Beekman,  A   J. 
Boorum,  William  B. 
Duryea,  Samuel  B, 
Gibb,  John 
James,  Darwin  R. 
Jones    Frank  S. 
Litchfield,  E.  B. 
Lyon,  Bdward  P. 


Trustees.   1878-1903 

Marquaud,  l'red'k  '7S-\S;, 

Martin,  John  T.  '78-'97 

'93-'oo      Marvin,  Charles  R.  '7S-.S0 

•si-'S;     McWilliams,  D.  W  '85  '03 
'Sg-'o;,      Moore.  Thomas  S. 

'S|  'Ss     Packard,  Edwin,  's.v'oo 

Peabody,  George  F.  'oo-'o3 

J      Post.  James  H.  \>2-\>;, 

Pratt,  Charles  M.  '92-'<>;, 


Richardson,  I.con'd  '<s|-'9l 

Schenck,  Fred'lt  B.  'oo-'gS 

Schieren,  Chas,  A.  *97-'o3 

Seney,  George  I.  's.v'')5 

Taylor.  James  R.  ^N-'S; 
Trask.  Alan  -on 

Tucker,  John  A.  'S.V'S4 

Wood,  Cornelius  D.  's4-'o;. 


Boody,  David  A 
Gill,  William  P 
I  law  ley.  Edgar  W. 


Advisory  Directors.  1887-1903 


Peabody,  George  F.  '< 
'88-'03      Raven.  Anton  A.         's7-'n.^ 
'95- '00     Schenck,  Fred'k  B. 


Schieren.  Chas.  A.     '88-'97 

Strout,  Albion  P. 

Stuart,  Francis  H.     '87-'oa 


I  I  8  FIFTY  YEARS  IX  BROOKLYN 

Officers  of  the  Association,  1853-1903 


Wars.  Piesidents 


A    A   Smith. 


il-*55  ...  A.  A.  Smith. 


James  McGee 


-57-'sS  .     George  A   Bell 


J.  M.  Doublcday. 


•5q  Y»        H.  H   Lloyd 


R.  S.  Bi 


'.1       I.e. 


1 ).  V.  Coffin 


Vice-Presidents  Recording  and  Corre- 

\  ice  rresiuents.  sponding  Secretaries. 


William  Backus  James  McGee,  R. . 

I.  T.  ConkliriK B.  V.  Abbott,  C 

A    F.  G-oodnow 

I.  E.  Hanford 

J.  H.  Harriot 
S.  V.  F.  Odell 
R  S.  Slocnm   . . 

J.  M.  Smith 

I..   R.  Wyant 

William' Backus J.  M.  Pray.  R 

\V,  A.  Gellatly Frederick  STiiith,  C. 

James  McGi  P.  J-  Ten  Eyck,  C. 

J.  A.  Xexsen 

S.  M.  Parsons     

R.  S.  Slocnm 

William  Kdsall Henry  II.  Lloyd,  R. 

C.  P.  Hays  P.J.  Ten  Eyck,  C... 

William  Hapir.  Jr.. 
William  A.  Marten 

Frederick  Smith 

R    S.  Slocum.  . .     

Samuel  Carter James  (i.  Slack.   R. 

|.  F.  Davis W.  A.  Gellatly,  C. 

J.  M   Doubleday. 
Edward  H.  Thome 
Cornelius  Wilbour 
Cornelius  1).  Wood    . 

lohn  Duffin ..S.P.Butler    R 

James  M.  Ives  Levi  W.  Hart,  t 

H.  H.  Uoyd  

Lemuel  W   Serrell  . . 
Charles  H.  Smith 
Robert  T.  Thorne 

R  S.  Bussing.  E.  C.  Ritchie.  R 

W.  J.  Giddings  Lyman  Abbott, 

Robert  T.  Thome 

M   E.  Bassett  o.  V  Coffin,  R 

B.  D.Burt  H.  H.Lloyd,  C 

Wm.  E.  Doubleday 
losiah  Dow 
( i.  A.  Draper  . 
W.  J.  Giddings 
!    S    H..sf,.rd 
J.  R.   Pomeroy 
Henry  Whi 
losiah   Dow 

s.  M.  Giddings 

1.    H.  Holmes 

J.  s.  Hosford 
t'   lv  Copeland 

W    IV  Her 

I   s.  Hosford 
I   i'   Kyle 
C   II   Ollvi 


Treasurers. 


Rei;istrars  and 
Librarians. 


J .  S.  Carr  . 


J.  Morrison,  R. 


J.  S.  Carr  las.  Ridgway,  R. 


G.  A.  Be'.l. 


\V.  J.  Giddings 


M.  Bridgman    .  C.  W.  Dunlap,  I. 


Ji  siah  Dow  I    D.  W.  (.'■ 


John 


|..s.  Woodbi 


C.  E.  Copeland,  R 
Henry  Wh  • 


Cornelius  Wilbour 


II    II    Lloyd,  I. 


Righter,  R. 

Barker,  C. 


I   lv  w   Grady.  Henry  \\  I 


FIFTY  YEARS  IX  BROOKLYN  i  |Q 

Officers  of  the  Association,  [853-1903— Continued 


Years. 


Presidents. 


dents. 


William  Edsall 


William  Edsall 


B.  i> 


C.  A.  Righter  S.  ('.  Blake 

J.  s.  Hosford 
11.  A.  Jones 
L.  W.  Manchester 
Thos.  II.  Messi 

A.  i;.  Thorn 

B.  I).  Barker 
s    \i.  ( iiddings 
J.  s.  Hosford 
Geo.  s.  Thompson 
A.  li.  Thorn 
Henry  White 
1:   I)   Barker 
R.  a   Bryant 
B    \I   GiddingS 
11.  A.  Hagar 
c    A    Righter 
J.  S.  Stoothofl 

Bai  .  James  Darling 

s.  M.  Giddings 

I  s.  Stooth 

S.  Thorp,  Jr. 

Hem  j   u  b 
William  Edsall  [,  p,  Anderson,  Jr. 

II  B,  Barn< 
James  S.  Cs 
Wm.  M.  Hastings 
W,  I..  Ogdi 
c'liMiuiii  M.  Rutter 
|ohn  W,  Ed, 
William  Bdsall 
Charles  K.  Mai 
lames  Myers 
w,  i„  Ogden 
hums  I'.  Wallace 
/..Hilary  Eddy 
Way  la  m  I  I 

Ri  -mollis 
\    II    Si  bench 
Jas.  I'.  W;  11 
Zachary  Eddy 

Wavlaiul  II,, yi 

1 ,.  Reynolds 
Noah  11   Scl 

P.  Wallace 

Wm.  W.  \\ 


.  William  W.  WickeS. 


f,  .  1      1  , 


11  < .   Eaton 


Recording  and  ( 

sponding  s.  .-n  i 


1.  C,  Robinson,  R, 

E.    I>     I '.ark 


Janus  Darling,  R 
().  Y.  Colli, 


James  Darling,  R. 
Henry  White,  C. 


Charles  S.   I. all,, 
W  II., in  Bdsall,  C 


I'..  B,  Spooner,  |r  ,  u 
|.  1).  Blwell,  C 


Henry  C.  Wilson,  u 
Enoa  \.  Tali 


Charles  Mumford,  R 
Enos  N.  Tat't.  C. 


Treasurers. 


Registrars  and 

Librarians. 


Charles  M  umford,  R 
Bnos  N.  Tai't.  C. 


F   D.  Ogden  .  I   I).  W.  Grady,  I.. 


I.  W.  Manchester        T.  II   Messenger,  L 


1  lemy  Chapin 


1  ieo,  A.  Morand 


\    Morand 


Wm.  \I    M 


Win     \l     M 


Wm.  M.  M 


.1.  11.  I.ightbody,  R. 
c-   A    Morand,  I.. 


Chas.  Tredick,  R. 
T.  II.  Me-.s, 


Wm  A  Marshall,  R. 
Chas.  Mumford   I,. 


W.   R,  An, I. 


I  20  FIFTY  YEARS  IN  BROOKLYN 

Officers  of  the  Association,  1853-1903— Continued 


Years. 


7*"  73 


75'76 


'8o  '81 


Presidents. 


Vice-Presidents. 


D.  ('..  Eaton 


D.  H.  Cochran 


D.  H.  Cochran 


T.  H.  .Marvin 


T.  H.  Marvin 


'76-77  ■       J-  ''■  Adams 


'77--78        C.  H.  Dillingham 


'78-'7g       C.  H.  Dillingham 


'n   8)       I)  W.  McWilliams 


A.  L  Taylor 
utting 


Zachary  Eddy 

Wayland  Hoyt 

Ceo.  G.  Reynolds 
Noah  H.  Schenck 
James  P.  Wallace  . 
Win.  W.  Wickes  .. 
Wayland  Hoyt 
Geo.  G.  Reynolds 
Xoah  H.  Schenck 
Alanson  Trask 
James  P.  Wallace  . 
Wm.  W.  Wickes.. 
L    W.  Bancroft 

David  Inglis 

David  Moore.  Jr. 
Geo.  G.  Reynolds 
James  P.  Wallace 
Wm.  W.  Wickes 
L.  W.  Bancroft 
David  Ingiis 
David  Moore,  Jr... 
Geo.  G.  Reynolds 
(anies  P.  Wallace 
Wm.  W.  Wickes  .. 
W.  I.  Buddintfton 
D.  H.  Cochran.  . . 
1).  G.  Eaton   

s.  M.  Giddinge 
Albert  -S.  Hunt  .... 
A.  G.  Lawsi 

D.  ('..  Eaton 

s.  M.  Giddings 
Albert  S.  Hunt  .... 
A.  G.  I.awson 
Carlton  Ayres 
S.  B.  Duryea 
David  IiiKlis 
I),  w.  McWilliams 
Carlton  Ayres 
S.  B.  Duryea 
L.  I).  Mason 

A.  L.  Taylor 

1).  W.  Me  Williams 
Henry  E.  Wheeler 

Carlton  Ayres 

B.  W.    Ilawley 

a.  (;.  Lawao 

1..  I).  Mason 

A.  L.  Taylor 

Carlton  Ayrc-, 

B.  W.   Ilawlex 
\    1  .    I.awson 

D    W.  McWilliams 

A.  I..  Taylor 
A   a   Raven 


Recording  and  Corre- 
sponding Secretaries. 

Treasurers. 

Wm.  M.  Martin.  R 

Wm.  M.  Martin   

Bnos  X.  Taft.  C 

Wm.  M.  Martin,  R 

Win.  M.  Martin 

Bnos  X.  Taft,  C 

Assistant 

Treasurers. 


Chas. 
Enos 


1).  Baker.  R. 
X.  Taft.  C. 


Wm.  W.  Wickes 


Chas 
Enos 


.  D.  Baker.  R 
X.  Taft,  C. .  . . 


Wm.  W.  Wickes 


J.  P. 

C.  D 


Adams.  R 
Baker.  C 


Win.  W.  Wickes 


A.  G.  Lawson.  R. 

Will.  W.  Wickes 

Alanson  Tra 

A.  S.  Emmons,  C 

I..  J.  Briggs.  Jr..  R.. 

Alanson  Trask 

A    A.  Raven 

A   s.  Emmons,  C 

L.J.  Briggs.  |r  ,  R. 

Alanson  Trask 

A    A    Raven 

L.J. 
II.  B 


Brigtfs.  Jr.,   R 
Chamberlin.  C 


I.   J 
Thos 


BriggS,  |i\,  R. 
.  J.  Will 


Alans.. Ti  Trask 


Alan  soi 


A.  A    Raven 


Edwin  Packard 


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Officers  of  the  Association.  1 85 3- iOO}— Continued 


Years. 


Presidents. 


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Bdwin  Packard 

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Edwin  Packard  H(  nry  Dalley,  Jr 

F.  !l     - 
Edwin  Packs  1 1 

Edwin  Packard  i'y.  Jr 

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Edward  P. 


Willis  I..  Ogden 
J.  II.  Oliphant 


F.  A.  Parsons   R. 

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P.  A-  Parsons,  R. 

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I)   W.  McWilliams  ...  Henry  (i.  Fay 

1)    W.  McWilliams...  Henry  G.  1 

G.  Fay  . . .  F.  B.  Scbenck 

las    R.  COW 

Henry  <;    Fi  ■  Jas   R 

Henry  las.  R.  Con 

Charles  M    Ha; 
Charles  M    Hay 

John  I.  Vail 

John  J.  Vail. 

John   I.  Vail 

I  Rowland 

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land 

'.nit  II.  Parsons 
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Rowland.  Frank  IIP 


I  22 


FIFTY  YEARS  IN  BROOKLYN 


Executive  Officers  of  the  Association,   1853-1903 


lames  P.  Root,  Librarian* 

Pliny  Fiske  Warner,  Librarian 

C.  H'.  Oliver,  Librarian 

Van  Ingen.  Librarian 

George  T.  Ciane,  Librarian 

Mrs.  Gardner  (in  charge),  Librarian 

Solomon  S.  Giddings,  Librarian 

C.  H.  A.  Bulkley,  Chaplain  and  Actuary. . 

Solomon  S.  Giddings,  Librarian 

R.  H.  Rust,  Chaplain  and  Actuary 

William  M.  Martin,  Chaplain  and  Supt. .. 
Mrs.  M.  A.  Hyatt,  Assistant  Librarian 

and  in  charge  Relief  Work 

Charles  Mumford,  Librarian 

George  T.  Clark,  Registrar  

Solomon  S.  Giddings,  Librarian 

Gilman  Herbert,  Assistant  Librarian 
Abram  S.  Emmons,  Librarian  and  Sec- 
retary   

B.  F.  Bowen,  Financial  Secretary.  . . . 

George  A   Hall,  Secretary " 

Humphrey  B.  Chamberlin 

John  Liddle,  Assistant  Secretary  .... 
J.  T.  Bowne,  Assistant  Secretary  . . . 
Chas.  H.  Dillingham,  Acting  Secretary.. 
H.  B.  Hudson,  Assistant  Secretary  . . 
Chas.  P.  Carty,  Assistant  Secretary. . 

Thomas  [.  Wilkie,  General  Secretary 

B.  F.  Parliman,  Librarian 

J.   Harry  Gould,  Librarian  and  Em- 
ployment Secretary 

H.  McComber,  Assistant  Librarian.. 
Richard  Foster,  Assistant  Librarian. 
J.  Douglas  Andrews,  Gymnasium  In- 
structor   

Wallace  MacMullen,  Assistant  Secre- 
tary   

J.  P.  Davenport,  Assistant  Secretary 
John  C.  McKechnie,  Assistant  Libra- 
rian and  Clerk 

Frank  C.  Hoyt,  Assistant  Secretary. 
Francis  R.  Wat  die.  General  Secretary".. 

Silas  H.  Berry,  Librarian 

H.  C.  Siegmann,  Cashier  and  Book- 
keeper   

Edwin  F.  See.  General  Secretary 

Jas.  L.  Gordon,  Associate  Secretary 
E.  W.  Thwing,  Assistant  Librar'a 
C.T.- 
F  de- 
ployment Secretary 


C.J.  Benham,  Assistant  Librarian. 
rill    Potter,    Business  and    Era- 


53-'5S  I.  A.  Gouldrup,  Assistant  Secretary  '87 

55-'56  Warren    E.    W  ilkins.   Cashier  and 

56-'57  Bookkeeper '87-'8q 

57~'58  C.  P.  Knight,  Assistant  Librarian..  "87-'qi 

58-'5q  W.  W.  Passage,  Assistant  Secretary  '88-'8) 

59- '64  H.  W.  Packard,  Business  and  Em- 

64 -'66  ployment  Secretary '88-'q3 

67                      Jos.  B.  Ferguson.  Assistant  Secretary  '88-'5o 
67-*68               *    Robt.  S.  Ross,  Assistant  Secretary*.  '88-V 
67-'68                   L.  W.  Sammis.  Assistant  Secretary  '89 
68-'75  Howard  C.  Ives.  Assistant '89-'9o 

Wm.  Lombard,  Cashier  and  Book- 

68-'76  keeper '89-'92 

69-V3  Arthur  Truslow,  Assistant  Secretary  '89-V 

70-' 73  '"•  N.  Re  id.  Assistant '90-  '9. 

73-V4                  Arthur    B.    Ross,   Secretary   Boys' 
73-'74  Department '9o-'9i 

Henrv  Medd.  Assistant  Secretary..  '9; 
74-V7  R-  A.  McFadden,  Assistant  Secretary  '9i-'g3 

76  F.  R.  Roberson,  Assistant  Secretary '9i-'92 

75-'76  Geo.  W.  Ehler.  Physical  Director.,  'qi-'gi 

77-'79  Geo.  M.  Brown,  Assistant  Physical 

78  Director " '9i-'q2 

78-' 79  Edgar  Hopper,  Assistant 'gi-'qa 

79-'8o  Walter  Truslow.  Assistant '9t-'92 

79-'8o  E.  D.  Cain.  Business  Secretary '92 

8d  '81  Juan  Silva,  Secretary  Boys'  Depart- 

8  >-'86  ment * '92-93 

8o-'83  Geo.  A.  Simpson,  Assistant '92-' 95 

F.  H.  Grundy,  Cashier  and  Book 

83-'85  keeper 92-'g3 

83  Arthur  B.  Wood,  Assistant  Secretary  '92-'94 

83  H.  L.  Simmons,  Financial  Secretary.  '92-'o3 

W.  H.  Cougblin,  Employment  Sec- 
8$-'yi  tarv  and  Educational  Director...  '92-'o3 

\V.  K.  U.  Walford,  Assistant V-'o3 

83-'85                  J.  M.  Voorhees.  Assistant  Physical 
84-'85  Director '92-'96 

Alex.  Candlish,  Business  and  Em- 

85-'87  ployment  Secretary '93-'94 

8.,-'86  E.  F.  Ludwig,  Cashier  and  Book- 

85  keeper '93"'96 

8;-'97                  Miss  Helen  F.  Odell,  Assistant  Li- 
brarian    *93-'94 

85- '87  J.  B.  Carpenter,  Jr.. Secretary  Bi 

86-'o3  i  Artment 'o 

86-'88  J.    F.    Walker,   Assistant    Physical 

86  Director '94-'96 

86-'87  A.  H.  Howell,  Assistant  Secretary.  '94-'gs 

1".  1.  Hathaway.  Assistant '      'q$-'qb 

8S-'8S  Alex.  C.  Howe".  Physical  Director..  'gs-V,8 


CENTRAL 

Harvey  L.  Simmons,  Branch  Secretary..  '96-'97 
Charles  H.  Kelscy,  Cashier  and  Book- 
keeper   '96 

Fred  A.  DeVoll,  Assistant '96-'g7 

E.  B.  Searles,  Assistant  Secretary        'y6-'9g 
Edward    J.   Titsworth,   Cashier  and 
Bookkeeper '06 

D.  Stolte,  Jr..  Assistant  Physical   Di- 

rector   

E.  A.   Blood,  Assistant   Physical   Di- 
rector .'>  '97 

Alfred  O.  Booth,  Assistant  Secretary  '97-98 
II.  II.  Wikcl.  Physical  Director 
J,    S.    Ford.   Assistant    Physical    Di- 
rector    '97-'oo 

Irene  A.  Hackctt.  Librarian.. 
Thornton  B.  Penfield,  Branch  Secretary.  'gB-'oi 
c.  c.  Swift.  Membership  Secretary 
Margt.  W.  Lee.  Assistant  Librarian      '99- '03 

A.  It.  Parker,  Assistant    "99 

|.  II.  Palmer,  Assistant  Secretary 
A  \v.  Hanson,  Membership  Secretary 


BRANCH 

C.  H.  Kimble,  Physical  Director  Boys' 

Department    

E.  s.  Willis,  Assistant  Secretary 

W.  K.  Hanger,  Membership  Secretary 

Bl  ownell  Gage,  Student  and  Foreign 

Work  Secretary 
Geo.  W.  Hunter.  Assistant  Secretary 
''lias.  W.  Dietrich,  Branch  Secretary 

D.  M.  Claghorn,  Assistant  Secretary 
W.  W.  Saunders.  Assistant  l" 

Director 

rge  I.  Fisher,  Physical  Din 
B.   W.    Phillips,    Assistant    Secretary 

Boys'  Department 
S.   B.  Burrows,  Ass  stain   Secretary 

Boys'  Department 
A.  |.  Elliott,  Religious  Work  Director 

Frank  11    VY.  -• .  Membership  and  As- 
sistant Secrets] 
W.  McM.  Logan,  Assistant    Religious 

Work  Director 

Louise  K.  Mor:  t  Librarian 


While  in  the  early  history  of  the  Association  the  responsible  Librarian  was  oftentin 
member  of  the  Board  of  Managers,  from  November  1,1853,  there  wasan  executive  officer  designated 

•s  the  "  Librarian."  devoting  a  considerable  proportion  or  all  of  his  time  to  1  'ion. 


FIFTY  YFARS  IN  BROOKLYN 


12; 


EASTERN   DISTRICT  BRANCH 


Harvey  L  Simmons.  Branch  Secretary 
I).  E.  Balsley,  Physical  Directoi 
Chas.  H.  Murray. 'Assistant  Secretary 
H.G.  McDivitt,  Assistant  Secretary  ' 

Wm.  Knowles  Cooper,  Branch  Secretarv 
W.  J    llodxson.  Physical  Director   . . 


\V.  M.  Gillie,  Assistant  Secretary 
Geo.  T.  Hepbron.  Physical  Director 
Charles  H.  Carev,  Physical  Director 
Henry  C.  Rohm,  Assistant  Secretary 
Fred  !>.  Pagg,  Branch  Secretary 


94-.95 
93-'q8 
98-03 
98-99 
99-Q.l 
S.  B.  Doolittle 'w-'oo 


BKDFORD   BRANCH 


Edward  II.  Foot,  Branch  Secretarv  

E.  X.  Whiting,  Assistant  Secretary.. 

lames  P.  Becker.  Physical  Director.. 

John  S.  Ticheno  retary 

Walter  S.  Tenn  retary 

Chas.  T.  Tinker,  Assistant  Secretary 
\V.  J.  Wilkinson.  Assistant  Secretary 

('has.  v .  Herman,  Physical  Dir 

I.  R.  Thompson.  As  .-tary 

Wm.  1 '.  ( tavitte,  Assistant  Secretary. 
llarrv  B.  Cantel,  Branch  Secretary 

\\vilfred  W.  Pry,  Assistant  Secretary 


9^>-  95 

91-92 

9*-'93 


Mclvin  Jackson.  Assistant  Secretary. 

Gaoler, Physical  Director. 
J.  Thomas  Whit  I  Secretary 

1,  Branch  Seer*  tary 
Chas.  v  s.  aring,  Assistan'  Secretary 

lie  P.  Randal.  Assistant  Secretary 
H.  0.  Right,  Assistant  Secretary  .... 
E.  K.  All  u  Secretarv     ... 

M.  I.  Poss,  Physical  !  1 

Hammond,  Branch  Secretary 
'/.   \.  Will  ry 

C  II    W    DutT.  Assistant  Secretarv.. 


97* 

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0- 

97 

9y 

99- 

o- 

99- 

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02- 

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03 

PROSPECT   PARK   BRANCH 


Henry  Medd,  Branch 

T.  T.  Hays,  Asaistai  I  S  en  tarj 

I'.  P.  Wiley.  Assistant  Secretary 
Ben.  M.  Lewis.  Secretary 

B,  B,  l.i 

C  B.  Batchelor,  Assistant  8  .  '9s-'o6 

Ben  Cappe,  A  retary        .  '96 

l\  A.  1  >clano.  As.-  itant  S(  c 

E.  W.  Traub,  Assistant  Se 
|ohn  G.  Thorne,  Branch  Secretary 

|.  K.  Merritt.  PI  ctor 


E     P.   Cookingham,    Assistant    Secre- 
tarv   '99-01 

W   H   Ball,  Physical  Director.  ...     ..  'oi-'oj 

I    1).  Stehman,  Assistant  Secretary 

\V.  A.  Kloeppel.  Assistant  Secretary.  'o;-'oj 

W.  W.  Winnc.  Branch  Secretarv 

I >.  Witt   B.   Da\  nit  Secre- 
tarv    . .  '03 

|.s.  B.  Tarncv.  Assistant  Secretary    .  '03 
Walker. "Physical  Director 

"1    I  Toedt,  Physical  Director 


TWENTY-SIXTH    WARD   BRANCH 


.-.  Branch  Secretai  . 
Oscar  T.   Rockefeller,   Physical    Di- 
rector 
William    Kemp   Nugent,    Assistant  1 

B.  Maxwi 

II    A    Sprague,  Assistant  S 


Chas.  I".  Herman.  Physical  Director. 
11    r    [ones.  Physical  Director 

.  Branch  Sei 
Chas   R.  Foster,  Assistant  Secretary. 

C.  T,  Booth.  Physical  Din  1 
Wm    Kemp  Nugent.  Branch  S  ■    retary 

ii.  I..  I.'stman.  Physical  Direct 


98-99 
99-00 

'03 


LONG    ISLAND   RAILROAD    BRANCH 


-  .11  Jones.  Branch  Secretai  j 
B.  Tomlinson, 

A.  K    Hicks.  Assistant  Sei 


■19- '01 

■it  Secretarv  '01 

tant  Seen  I    - 


BROOKLYN  RAPID  TRANSIT  BRANCH 

|.  M.  Dudley,  Branch  Secretary  W.  p.  Duncan.  Ass  - 

CARLTON  AVENUE  BRANCH 

ies  II.  Bullock.  B 

PORT   HAMILTON   ARMY   BRANCH 

lohll  Upton  Evers,  Branch  Secretarv  A.  S.  (iatTney.  Branch  Se  'ot 

1 ).  Boynton,  Branch  > 

I-'oRT  TOTTEN  ARMY  BRANCH 

I).  Boynton.  Branch  Secretary 

GREENPOINT  BR  \NCH 


1  Truslow,  Branch  Si 

Cyrus  V.  Peck.  PI" 


.   I.  Kltcke:  and  Boys' 


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FIFTY  YEARS  IN  BROOKLYN* 


Bequests  and  Special  Gifts  to  the  Association,   1853-1903 

Exclusive  of  gifts  for  current  expenses  and  building  funds,  except  initial  subscriptions  to  the  latter* 

1878.     Mrs.  Deborah  W.  Mason,   bequest 

[878.     Others 

1878.  Mrs.  Theodore  Polheimis,  Memorial  Library,  2,000  vols.,  esti- 
mated value 

1 SS. ».      Sarah    M.    G.    Merrill,  bequest 

[880.      Mary  Tabor 

1885.     George  I.  Seney,  2,000  vols.,  estimated  value 

[885.  Frederick  Marquand  Estate,  by  Mrs  Virginia  Marquand  Monroe, 
Alanson  Trask  and  Daniel  McWilliams,  residuary  legatees,  for 
property  at  502  Fulton  Street      

1885.     The  citizens  of  Brooklyn.  Endowment  Fund 

1889.     A.  S.  Barnes  Memorial  in  Library      

1891.  George  Foster  Peabody,  Library  Endowment 

1892.  John  Ruszits,  bequest 

1893.  Moses  Bulkley,  Guarantee  Memorial 

1896.     Alanson  Trask,  for  bowling  alleys  Central  Branch 

1896.  Pratt  Institute,  Library  Endowment 

1S97.  Dorothy  Stryker,  bequest  for  Prospect  Park  Branch 

1897.  Henry  G.  Fay.  for  baths  in  Central  Branch  gymnasium     .... 

189S.  Jesse  C.  Dickey,  bequest 

189S.  Williamson  Rapalje,  bequest  for  26th  Ward  Branch 

1900.  Samuel  Bowne  Duryea,  bequest 

[900.  Charlotte  S.  Buck,  by  courtesy  of  heirs  of  Mrs.  Buck,  in  releasing 

bequest  from  the  technicalities  of  the  law 

1900.     In  memory  of  George  H.  Nichols 

1900.     B.  H.  Howell,  Eastern  District  Branch  Building 

1900.  B.  H.  Howell,  bequest  Flastern  District  Branch  Endowment    .    . 

1900.  Stephen  Ballard,  equity  in  two  houses 

1901.  James  R.  Taylor,  bequest 

1901.      Henry  G.  Fay,  bequest 

1901.      Mrs.  Mary  Callahan,  bequest 

1901.  Frank  S.  Jones,  Bedford  Branch  Building  Fund 

1902.  Gilbert  S.  Thatford,  bequest  for  Twenty-sixth  Ward  Branch   .    . 

1902.  George  Poster  Peabody,  for  Colored  Men's  Branch 

1903.  Anna  Y.  Lott,  bequest 

1903.  George  W.  Place,  bequest  for  Eastern  District  Branch 

1903.  John  D.  Rockefeller,  Jubilee  Building  Fund 

1903.  In  addition  to  the  ab  ivc,    the  Association    was   remembered    h\ 

legacies,  payable  on  the  termination  of  life  estates,  in  the  wills 
of  Frederic  A  Ward  and  Charles  S.  Baylis.  the  amounts  of  such 
legacies  being  respectively  $2,000  and  $10,000,  and  by  a  condi- 
tional residuary  legacy  in  the  will  of  Henry  K.  Sheldon. 
amount  unknown. 

it  is  the  policy  of  the  Association  to  apply  legacies  and  special  contributions 

to  its  permanent  investments.  Bequests  ami  special  contributions  are  solicited  for 
the  extension  and  enlargement  of  the  work  in  any  department,  social,  physical, 
intellectual  and  religions.  Bequests  should  be  made  in  the  following  form  :  "I  give 
and  bequest  fa  to  the  Brooklyn  Voung  Men's  Christian  Association  the  siini  of 
f  ,    and   the   receipt   of   the  Treasurer  shall   be   sufficient  dis- 

charge to  my  executors  tor  the  same." 


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2,000 

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436 

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266 

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300,000 

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151,461 

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3.203 

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2,000 

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1,000 

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1,000 

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321 

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1,000 

CHI 

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5,000 

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4.350 

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100,000 

(H. 

THE  MERCANTILE 

NATIONAL 

BANK 

OF  THE  CITY  OF  NEW  YORK 
181)  and  11)1   Broadway 


Capital,       ------      $3,000,000 

Surplus,      ------      $3,000,000 


FREDERICK   B.  SCHENCK, 

President 

MILES  M.  O'BRIEN,       i 

WILLIAM   H.  TAYLOR, 

- 

-  Vice-Presidents 

DICK   S.  RAMSAY, 

[AMES  V.   LOTT, 

Cashier 

l-MIL   KLEIN, 

Asst.   Cashier 

Foreign  Exchange  and  Travelers'  Letters   of   Credit 


BROOKLYN   TRUST  COMPANY 

Chartered  1866 
MAIN  OFFICE  BEDFORD  BRANCH 

177-179   Montague  Street  Bedford  Avenue  and  Fulton  Street 

Capital, $1,000,000.00 

Undivided  Profits, $1,386,388.50 

This  Company  is  organized  to  transact,  at  its  Main  Office,  or  Bedford 
Branch,  any  business  that  can  be  transacted  by  a  prudently  managed  Trust 
Company. 

It  especially  solicits  accounts   and   trusts,  allowing  interest  on   the  former, 

and  giving  advice  respecting  the  latter  where  named   as  executor  in   a   will,  or 

as  trustee  under  an  agreement. 

TRUSTEES 

Thomas  T.  Barr  William  Hester  Theodore  F.   Miller  Charles  A.  Schieren 

Samuel  W.  Boocock  Francis  L.   Hine  Willis  L.  O^jden  J.  H.  Walhridge 

George  W.  Chauncey  William  A.  Jamison  John  J.  Pierrepont  Alexander  M.   White 

William  N.  Dykman  Frank  Lyman  Charles  M.   I'ratt  Alexander  M.   White,  Jr. 

John  Gibb  William   II.  Male  George  G.  Reynolds  C.  1).   Wood 

THEODORE  F.  MILLER,     -       -       -  President  STANLEY  W.  HUSTBD,        -       -       Secretary 

FREDERICK  C.  COLTON,  -   2d  Vice-President  FRANK  J.  W.  DILLER,  -  Assistant  Secretary 


HAMILTON   TRUST  COMPANY 

191    Montague  Street,  Brooklyn 


CAPITAL   AND  SURPLUS   OVER   $1,500,000 


SILAS    B.    DUTCHER,    President 

WILLIAM    BERRI,   Vice-President 

JOSEPH  It.  WHITE,  2d  Vice-President  and  Secretary 

GEORGE   HADDEN,  Assistant  Secretary 

Pays  Liberal  Interest  on  Daily  Balances. 

Acts  as  Trustee  and   Transfer  Agent  tor  Corporations,  Authorized   to  Acl 

as  Guardian,  Executor  and  Administrator. 
It  is  a  Legal  Depository  for  Trust  Funds. 
Exclusive  Banking  Facilities  for  Ladies. 
Family  and   Business  Accounts  Solicited. 


THE  NASSAU  NATIONAL  BANK 

OF  BROOKLYN,  N.  Y. 

TWENTY-SIX    COURT    STREET 

Organized  January,   L£ 


Capital,  -------        $300,000 

Surplus  and  Profits,        -  $600,000 

Designated  Depository  of  the  (  nited  States 


ACCOUNTS  SOLICITED 


Every  Facility  Furnished   Depositors  which  their   Balances  and 

Condition  justify 


THOMAS  T.    I'.AKR,    President 

WILLIAM    A.  NASH.  Vice-President 

EDGAR   McDdXALI).   Cashier 

JOHN   W.   SEAMAN,   Assistant   Cashier 

DANIEL  V.  B.  HEGEMAN,  Assistant  Cashier 

^DIRECTORS 

Alexander    M .  While  Prank    Bailey  James    II.  Taylor 

William   M.  [ngraham  Crowell   Hadden  Thomas  T.  Han 

Robert    B.   Woodward  Carll    II.   DeSilver  Alexander    M     White,  Jr. 

William   A.  Nash  Prank    Lyman 


Kings  County  Trust  Company 

342,   344  AND  346   FULTON   STREET 
City  of  New  York  Bokouoh  of  Brooklyn 


Capital, 


-     $500,000.00 
Surplus, 


WILLIAM    HARKNESS, 
I).  \Y.   McWILLIAMS, 


John   Arbuckle 
A.  Abraham 
Geo.  V.   B rower 
Roswell   Eldridge 
Julian   D.  Pairchild 
Julian   P.  Pairchild 


$1,000,000.00 
Undivided  Profits, 


JULIAN    D.  FAIRCHILD,  President 

HERMON    MORRIS, 
THOMAS   BLAKE, 
GEO.   V.   BROWER,   Counsel 


Vice-Presidents 


TRUSTEES 


Joseph   I'.  Grace 
John  Good 
William    Harkness 
Jos.  C.   Ilemlrix 
Joseph  Huber 
II.  K.  Knapp 


Whitman  W.   Kenyon 
Joseph  Liebmann 
Lewis  Luckenbaeli 
I).   W.   MeWilliams 
James  MeGovern 
Cord   Mever 


$262,130  00 


Secretary 
Assistant  Secretary 


Dick   S.  Ramsay 
II.  B.  Scharmann 

Wm.   V.    R.   Smith 
W.  M.  Van  Anden 

John  J.  Williams 
Thomas  F.  White 


Long  Island  Loan  and  Trust  Company 

"TEMPLE  BAR" 
BROOKLYN-NEW   YORK   CITY 


Capital, 


$1,000,000 


Surplus  and  Profits,   -   $1,450,000 


Edward  Mkrkitt,  President 

Clinton  L.  Rossiter,  1st   Vice-President 

David  G.  Legget,  -<l  Vice-President 

Frederick  '1".   Aldridge,  Secretary 

Willard  P.  Schenck.  Assistant  Secretary 


INTEREST  IS  ALLOWED  ON  DEPOSITS 
Safe  Deposit  Boxes  For  Rent 


TBI  i.i'Nmm  ,  3800    MAIN 


Cable  Address,  " MONTAG1  B,  BROOKLYN' 


Spencer  Trask  &  Co, 

BANKERS 

William,  cor.  Pine  St.,  New  York 

Transact  a  general  banking 
business;  act  as  Fiscal  Agents 
for  corporations,  and  negotiate 
security  issues  of  railroads  and 
other  companies.  Execute 
commission  orders  and  deal  in 

INVESTMENT    SECURITIES 

Members  New  York  Stock  Exchange 
Branch  Office,  65  State  St.,  Albany 


The  Upbuilding  Power  of  a  Great  Company 


The  Title  Guarantee  and  Trust  Company 
has  furnished  more  money  for  the  building 
up  of  New  York  City,  since  the  close  of  the 
Spanish-American  War,  than  the  entire  valua- 
tion of  the  State  of  Vermont,  and  has  sold 
those  loans  to  satisfied  investors. 
Total  valuation,  State  of  Vermont,  1902, 

-120,831,099 
Amount  loaned    to   owners  of  N.  V.  City 
Keal    Estate    by   Title    Guarantee    and 
Trust  Co.,  1899  to  1902,         $122,683,843 


This  company  has  made  it  as  easy  for 
investors  to  buy  mortgages  as  to  buy  bonds 
of  banking  house,  and  far  safer.  This  is  the 
secret  of  the  great  growth  of  its  business. 
It  does  all  the  preliminary  work  and  puts  its 
own  money  into  the  mortgages.  When  the 
investor  makes  his  selection  the  mortgage  is 
transferred,  and  the  money  begins  to  earn 
interest  immediately. 


Cttle  Guarantee  ant>  Crust  Company 

CAPITAL  and  SURPLUS,  $8,000,000 

146  BROADWAY,  NEW  YORK  175  <%EMSEN  ST.,  BROOKLYN 

Manufacturers  Branch,  J 98  Montague  Street,  Brooklyn 


THE 


Peoples    Trust    Company  The  NassauTrust  Company 


172  Montague  Street 

BEDFORD  BRANCH 

Bedford  Avenue  and  Halsey  Street 


Capital  and  Surplus, 


$2,600,000 


Transact*  ■  general  banking  business. 

Receives  deposits  <>t  money  subject  to  check  at  sight, 

or  lor  fixed  periods. 

Acts  as    Bzecutor,  Trustee.  Guardian  and  accepts  and 

executes  any  trust  with  regard  to  the  management  and 

disposition  "of  real  or  personal  property. 

Offers  its  services  in  the  preparation  of  Wills  or  Trust 
agreements  and  accepts  the  custody  thereof. 

Invites  correspondence  or  a  personal  interview  with 
its   officers  in   regard  to  all  departments  ot  its  business. 

Officers 
Bowabo  Johnson.  President 
Horace  \.  Moutj  Vice-Presidents 

CRAILH    A.    BOODV,  Secretary 
l.  II  ISLES     I-.   BCHBKCK,  I     , 

HENRI    M.  Heath,         j  *•»"**»*  Secretaries 


Trustees 


Bugene  G.   Blackford 

Isidore    M      lion 
1  lav  ill   A.    B 

hart 

Win.    M     t 
Win.  C     Coin  i 

wm    li    Daren] 

I     r..    hi  tuner 

Gallagher 

William   II    G I 

William  li    Hill 


Bdward  Johnson 

Solomon   W.  Johnson 

lames  fourdan 

Robert  J.    Kimball 

James  McMaboa 

i  orse 

Herbert  I..  Pratt 

i  mans 
Howard  M .  Smith 

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BROADWAY  AND 

BEDFORD  AVENUE 

Fulton  St.  and  Red  Hook  Lane 

BROOKLYN,  N.Y. 

Capital  and  Undivided  Profits,  $1,000,000.00 

Authorised  to  act  as  BxecutOT,  Trustee,  Adminis- 
trator. Committee,  Guardian,  Receiver.  Assignee,  Regis- 
trar, Transfer  and  Fiscal  Agent. 

Interest  paid  on  daily  balances.  Special  rates  on  time 
deposits. 

Accounts  of  individuals,  business  firms,  corporations. 
estates,  etc.,  invited. 

Travelers'  letters  of  credit  and  bankers'  money  orders 
issued. 

Safe  Deposit  Vaults 

Amikkw    T     Si  ii  i\  vs.    President 
II\khy     1".    BOBMBS,   Secretary 


P« ANCIS   W  I  I  KS,  ■ 


Assistant  >>•. -.  retartu  : 


Willi vm   Dick,  I  ,    .    ,.,       ,    ,, 

JOHN  TROSLOW  ******* 


Trustees 


A.  n    Balrd 
Bdward  T.  Iluist 

Henry    Roth 
Andrew    T.  Sullivan 
William    Mirk 
Ditmas  Jewell 
r    li    Mollenhauer 
Charles  II.  Russell 
John  Truslow 


Herbert  1".  Gunnison 

lost    Mollcr 
lluirv  Seibert 

i      B.  Tattle 

William    B.    II  or  well 

Robert  P.  Lethbridge 

-    II.    Post 

9 
r    u     Wurater 


MECHANICS  BANK 

MONTAGUE   AND  COURT   STREETS 


George  W.  Chauncey,  President 

|.  T.  B.    LITCHFIELD,     ) 

i  \  ice-Presidents 
Horace  C.  DuVal,     ' 


Charles  B.  Wheeler,  Cashier 
CHARLES  (',.   BALMANNO,  Assistant  Cashier 


Samuel  Sloan 
William  Baylis 
Daniel  D.  Whitney 
James  Raymond 


DIRECTORS 

Albert  I'.  Wells  J.  T.  E.  Litchfield  Charles  E.  Wheeler 

Daniel  Chauncey  George  W.  Chauncey  Daniel   W.   McWilliams 

David  H.  Valentine  Horace  C.  DoVal  Joseph  E.  Owens 

James  Jourdan  Timothy  S.   Williams 


SCHERMBRHORN    BRANCH,         -  335-355    SCHERMERHORN   STREET 

Arthur  P.  Smith,  Cashier 

Fifth  Avenue  Branch,     -       Ninth  Street  and  Fifth  Avenue 

Isaac  SlMONSON,  Cashier 

Twkn  rv-Sixi  ii   Ward  Branch,     Atlantic  and  GEORGIA  Aveni  i— 
James  l\   Alexander,  Cashier 


Corporation  and  Individual  Accounts  Invited 


Special  Inducements  Offered 


We  invite  your  account 

Seventeenth  Ward  Bank  Benedict  &  Benedict 

OF   BROOKLYN 


883    MANHATTAN    AVENUE 
near  Greenpoint  Avenue 

Capital, $100,000 

Surplus  and  Undivided  Profits,     .     $80,000 

Checks  drawn  on  iin-  bank  an-  payable  through  the 
New  \..rk  Ch  :>i  itik  Houae. 

Our  Safe  Deposit  Vaults 

Equipped  with  private  lafei  from  $3.00  pet  annum  and 
upward,  insures  your  valuable  papers,  lewelry,  etc., 
against  loss  by  fire  or  burglars.    9  >t  trunks. 

iio  m  >  or  silverware  by  the  month  or  year  at  reasonable 

Uratis  drawn   on    all    foreign    countries.     Travelers 

i  heck  and  letter!  of  credit  issued,  payable  in  all  pa  i 
the  world. 

Officers 
B.    \     W  m.k  iK.  President 

Chas,  II.  Reynolds,  Vice-President 

W'Al.TKK    Wll.MIRT.    Cashiei 


|.  s    Oguvie 
i     A.  Walker 

William   r    Corwlth 
lereniiall    Walsh 
William   O.   Miller 

les  II.   Reynold* 
B.  C.   Smith 

Henry  C,  Pischer 

Stephen   M.   Randall 


Directors 

w 


11.   Sturgis 

Julius    M. minim 

fames  MacFarlane 

John  O'Hrien 
John  Fallon 
William  Naaon 

Staclie 
John   Trounslini 


INSURANCE 

FIRE 

LIABILITY 

ACCIDENT 

TOURIST 

Corner  of 

Court   and    Montague    Streets 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 


The  National  Park  Bank  of  New  York 


ORGANIZED   1856 


CAPITAL  AND  SURPLUS, 


$9,500,000 


STUYVESANT   FISH 

Vice-President 


RICHARD    DELAFIELD 

President 

ALBERT    H.  WIGGIN 
Vice-President 


GILBERT   G.  THORN E 

Vice-President 


GEORGE  S.    HICKOK 

Cashier 

WILLIAM    O.  JONES 

Asst.  Cashier 

FRED'K  O    FOX  CROFT 
Asst.  Cashier 


Joseph  T.  Moore 
Stuyvesant   Fisli 
George  S.  Hart 
Charles  Scribner 


EDWARD  J.  BALDWIN 

Asst.  Cashier 

JOHN   C.  VAN   CLEAF 

Asst.  Cashier 
WILLIAM    A.  MAIN 

Asst.   Cashier 


DIRECTORS 
Edward  C.   Hoyt  Francis   R.  Appleton 

W.  Rockhill   Potts  John  Jacob   Astor 

August    Belmont  George   S.   Hickok 

Richard   Delafield  George  Fred'k    Vietor 


Albert    II.   Wiggin 
Cornelius  VanderbiJt 
Isaac  Guggenheim 
John   E.  Borne 


BIRD   S.  COLER 

Member  N.  V.  Stock  Exchange 


LEONARD  H.  HOLE 


W.  N.  COLER  &  CO, 


BANKERS 


59  CEDAR  STREET 


NEW  YORK 


INVESTMENTS 


I  HOXB,  2700,  L'TO]    [OHN 


Ohi.i     &DDKBM   "HoPI  M  I 


A.  M.  KIDDER  &  CO. 

Bankers 


18  Wall  Street,  New  York 


ALLOW  INTEREST  ON   DEPOSITS  SUBJECT  TO 
SIGHT  CHECK 

BUY  AND  SELL  ON  COMMISSION,  STOCKS  AND 
BONDS,  EITHER  FOR  CASH  OR  ON  MARGIN 


AND  DEAL  IN 
INVESTMENT  SECURITIES 


Established  1865 

Members  of  the 

New  York 

Stock  Exch< 

mge 

H.J. 

Morse 

Chas 

D.  Marvin 

Geo. 

S.  Coe 

MARRIED  LIFE 

made  more  complete,  if 
husband  and  wife  can 
exchange  messages  be- 
tween office  and  house. 

THE  NEW  YORK  AND  NEW 
JERSEY  TELEPHONE  CO. 

81  Willoughby  St.,      Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 


THE    ONLY    SALESROOMS    IN    GREATER    NEW    YORK    FOR 
THE    CELEBRATED  

SOU  MIR 


PIANOS 


PIANOS 


ARE     LOCATED     IN    THE     SOHMER     BUILDING 

FIFTH  AVENUE    CORNER   22d  STREET 

THE   "SOHMER"    HEADS  THE  LISTS  OF  THE  HIGHEST  GRADE  PIANOS 


TO    LET 

Afternoon  and  Evening  Entertainments 

ASSOCIATION    HALL 

502  Fulton  Street 

BROOKLYN 

The  Flatbush  district  affords  the 
best   location  for  suburban  homes 
in  the  Greater  New  York. 

Seating  capacit}-,  -    -  1325 

Centrally  located                            Terms  reasonable 

Telephone,  183  Main 

^£JDq      /IrC   Leaders     f°r   furnishing    printed   matter  as  it  ought  to  be. 

=— Because  we  have  the  facilities,  experience,  and  proper 

inclination,  our  work  always  leads  in  quality  and  tone.     Every  job,  no  matter 
what  its  size  or  nature,  is  handled  in  an  intelligent  and  enthusiastic  manner — 
that's    why   every   job    is    satisfactory,    and    why    our   customers    are    of   the 
" everlasting"  kind.      We're  waiting  for  your  order  now —       w^      ,i      *n 
can   wc   have  it?       :  :     .      :     :     :     :  :       Edgfe    TreJS 


Telephone,  2239  Main 


"Eagle  Building,  "Fourth  I-'i<><>r,  Washington  and  Johnson  Sts.t  Brooklyn-New  York 


ARE  YOU  GOING 
TO  MOVE? 

WE  MOVE.  House  to  house, 
or  in  storage,  and  guarantee 
perfect  satisfaction. 

Estimates  if  desired. 

Long  Island 
Storage  Warehouses 

881,833,885,887.889,891 

PARK  AVENUE 

Cor.  Broadway  BROOKLYN 


A  si  it.  k  it  PIANO,     ri"  1 11 11  manufactured  thai  li  to  universally  commended  by  expert  performer*  • 

nk  and  tii>-  "t  playei  -.  .is  i  he  BOHMBR.     1 1  is  :  p  piano,  built  merelj  rot  letting  l 

but,  considering  Its  countless  points  ol  superiority,  It*  matchless  puritj  a  ml  richness  i>f  tone,  ami  thr  mam 

the  cheap  inywhere  manufactured,     it  is  practically  unrlvalli 

i in    t  iiii-ii.m  Nation. 


in 


F.  P.  SCUDDER,      .  President 

ADOLPHE  E.  SMYLIE,     .      \  ke-Pres.  and  Sec'v 
II.  W.  PBTHBRBRIDGE,    .        .  Treasurer 

National 

Licorice 

Company 

Office:   106  JOHN  STREET 

Borough  of  Brooklyn 

New  York  City 

Works  — 

106-U6  John  Street 
227-237  Plymouth  Street 


WEED'S 

Ice  Creams  Catering 

Main    OFFICE 

U  99- J  201  Atlantic  Ave. 

Retail  Store 

Fulton    St.   and    Bedford    Ave. 

BROOKLYN  -  NEW  YORK 

'Phones 

1780  Bed  lord 
1781 


A    long    felt    Want 

The  L  &  K  TESTING  VALVE  &  PLUG 

will  enter  the  Hand  hole  on  a 
running   trap 
which  no  other 
Valve  will  do. 


WRITE  FOR 
DESCRIPTIVE  PAMPHLET 


Manufactured  by 


L.     &     K.     TESTING     VALVE 


L.     4      K 
TESTING     PLUG 


JOHN    SIMMONS    CO., 

104  to   110  Centre  Street  New  York.  N.   Y. 


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FRANKLIN     TRUST    COMPANY 

MONTAGUE,  CORNER  CLINTON  STREET 

BOROUGH  OF  BROOKLYN,  NEW  YORK  CITY 


Capital,      ---------- 

Surplus  and  undivided  profits,   - 


$1,000,000.00 
over  $1,500,000.00 


OFFICERS 


George  H.  Southard,  President  Crowell   Happen,  Jk.,  Secretary 

William  H.  Wallace.  Vice-President  Clinton  W.   Luplum,  Assistant  Secretary 

Gates  1).  Fahnestock,  2d  Vice- President  George  H.  South  akp,  Jk.   Assistant  Secretary 

William  I.  Frothingham,  Trust  Officer 


A.  A.  Low 
Bdwin  Packard 
Darwin  R.  James 
William   II.    Wallace 
Joseph  E.  Brown 


Albro  |.  Newton 
Crowell  Hadden 
II.  E.  Pierrepont 
George  M.  Olcott 
George  II.  Southard 


TRUSTEES 

Thos.   E.  Stillmau  Frederick  W.  Moss 

George  M.  Coit  Henry  C.  Hulbert 

Robert  B.   Woodward  Wilhelmus  Mvnderse 

Stewart  I..  Woodford  Gates  D.   Fahnestock 

George  H.  Prentiss  William  G.  Low 


EXECUTIVE    COMMITTEE 

William  H.  Wallace  George  -M.  Olcott 

George  II.  Prentiss 

INTEREST    PAID    OS   DEPOSITS 


Robert  B.  Woodward 

II.  Southard 

ACCOUNTS  SOLICITED 


E.  W.  BLISS  COMPANY 


Main  Office 

11    A  HAMS    STREET 

Brooklyn,  X.  V. 

European  Office 

I  RUE  HUNTZIGER 

Ci.ichv,  Pp.es  Paris 

France 

Estimates  Furnished 


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OWNERS   OK 

STILES  .V   PARKER 
PRESS  CO. 

'.  S.  PROJECTILE  i.  I  I 

ORR  &  HESS 
MACHINERY  CO 


Coi  respondence  Solicited 


Distributing  Agents  for  Chicago  and  vicinity.  STILES-MORSE  .V  CO.,  /'.'  and  IS  South 

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Manufacturers  of 

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Coining  Machinery,  Seamless  Strbi    Forgings,  Casi  Stebi   Cut 
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